Word: withdrawe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Morocco. Three SAC bases, but not for long. Under a 1959 agreement, the U.S. promised to withdraw by the end of 1963. and SAC has already begun shifting planes to bases in Spain. Morocco's neutralist government will probably also insist that the U.S. Navy give up its base at Kenitra, an important communications center for the U.S. Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean...
...force on a state of alert. None of this could disguise the fact that, stage by stage, Khrushchev was backing away from conflict. His offer of a deal with the West told the astonished Russian public for the first time that Russian missiles were in Cuba. His agreement to withdraw them was of course hailed by press and radio as a major gesture for world peace...
...American Lutheran Church-a group somewhat smaller and considerably more conservative than the Lutheran Church in America-the statement carried a particular irony. The church, holding its first convention in Milwaukee, had just devoted half a day to a heated debate on whether to withdraw from the council, which according to some delegates has become red-tinged by the inclusion of Russian Orthodox churchmen. The Lutherans decided to remain, 647 to 307, but they were in no mood for any backsliding on Cuba. One delegate called the council's stand "basically Communist doctrine," and the convention disassociated the American...
Once the race started, Harvard's bad luck changed temporarily, and the experienced crew sailed their 24 foot Raven to an easy victory. During the second race, however, everything went wrong, the Crimson was forced to withdraw because of an infraction of the third race, at the end of the first day of racing Ford's crew was in third place, one pint behind Rhode Island and two behind arch-rival Yale...
...said that I believed the United States should bomb the Soviet missile bases in Cuba. This statement was taken completely out of context. What I did say was that if the bases could be proven a dangerous threat to American or world security, and if the Russians did not withdraw peacefully (as they now seem to be doing), then I would favor a pin-point bombing of the bases rather than an invasion seeking the ruthless destruction of the present Cuban government...