Word: withdrawe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With Menon disposed of, India settled down to deal with the Chinese. New Delhi sent word to the U.N. that it wanted to withdraw "as soon as possible" its 5,700 troops in the Congo. Police rounded up scores of Communists suspected of holding "pro-Chinese" feelings, even though India's Communist Party had belatedly come out against "Chinese aggression...
...events that had taken place in Turkey itself earlier in the week, after Kennedy's first television announcement of the Cuba missiles threat. Out of the blue, Soviet Ambassador Nikita Ryzhov sought an audience with Foreign Minister Feridun Erkin, confronted him with a blunt demand for immediate withdrawal of U.S. missiles and NATO installations in Turkey. Premier Ismet Inonu himself drafted the note of rejection. Next Ryzhov arrived with a second, blunter ultimatum: Withdraw the U.S. bases or the Soviet Union will put Turkey's cities first on the list for annihilation if war comes...
...year-old anti-Stalin poem by Evgeny Evtushenko (TIME, Nov. 2) was noted with fascination by some students of Soviet policy; to them it suggested that Khrushchev's crowd was issuing a warning to its Stalinist enemies. In addition, Izvestia stated emphatically that the Soviet decision to withdraw the Cuba missiles was "the only correct one in the prevailing circumstances," which sounded as if a defense of the move had become necessary. Finally, Moscow dragged from disgrace Marshal Kliment Voroshilov, 81, only last year berated by Khrushchev as an "antiParty" type. Now Pravda carried a long article over...
...been told in advance of the nighttime raids, hotly offered his resignation to Chancellor Konrad Adenauer-who had not been informed either. At week's end, unappeased by several conferences with the Chancellor, Minister Stammberger was sticking to his decision, and other Cabinet members threatened to withdraw their support from Adenauer's delicate coalition government...
...chaos of battle, many soldiers panicked and ran. A serious revolt occurred when 700 Scots, exhausted from three years' fighting in North Africa, sullenly refused to go into battle. By the fifth day ashore, Mark Clark was so discouraged that, says Pond, he gave preliminary orders to withdraw the American troops from the beachhead and use them to reinforce the British; stunned by the order, the British simply ignored...