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AYMAN AL-ZAWAHIRI, Osama bin Laden's second-in-command, in a video aired last week on al-Jazeera, threatening more American casualties if the U.S. does not withdraw from Iraq...
...their fighting. Indonesian military chief General Endriartono Sutarto urged G.A.M. to abide by the pact, scheduled to be signed in Helsinki on Aug. 15, saying, "Now is the time for them to put their weapons down and jointly rebuild Aceh." President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has promised to withdraw all non-Acehnese military personnel from the province when the rebels disarm...
Released two days later, the letter stated that Brittan had told British Aerospace's chief executive officer, Sir Raymond Lygo, that his company's involvement in the Euro-consortium "was not in the national interest" and that he "should withdraw." The account seemed to belie Thatcher's claim of neutrality. The government simultaneously released its own description of the Jan. 8 meeting. According to notes taken by Brittan's secretary, the Minister had said only that "it was not in the national interest that the present uncertainty involving Westland should drag...
Only a week before the election, most polls had predicted that González would go down to a crushing defeat in the vote and be forced to make Spain the first country to withdraw totally from the 16-member alliance. But when the votes were counted, the pro-NATO group had won by a surprisingly large margin. The final tally showed 52.5% for continued membership, 39.8% for withdrawal, and the rest of the ballots blank or invalid...
...first mass demonstrations against the U.S. since the pacifist wave of 1983 erupted last week around U.S. military bases and in major West European cities from Milan to Madrid. Thousands marched through streets, calling President Reagan a murderer and demanding that their country withdraw from NATO. The protesters mirrored the official positions of most European governments. When the U.S. planes went into Libya, only the British government of Margaret Thatcher actively supported Reagan. The Mitterrand-Chirac administration in France, like Felipe González Márquez's government in Spain, refused to let U.S. aircraft overfly the two countries. The Italian...