Word: withdrawing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week's end Sadat gave a tough speech before the Egyptian parliament, in which he emphasized that the peace talks had collapsed because Israel refused to express its willingness to withdraw from Arab territory. Sadat acknowledged that the Israeli people had shown "in the most unmistakable human manner" their desire for peace, but he accused their government of deceit and said he had threatened war if Israel insisted on keeping its settlements in the Sinai (see box). "I will not allow a single settlement," Sadat said he told Israeli Defense Minister Ezer Weizman last month, "even if this requires that...
...principal peace negotiator, no leader in the past decade has tried harder than Hussein to reach an agreement with Israel. The King looks back on his efforts as failures: "Ever since 1967, we have made it clear-before the 1973 war-that if Israel were willing to withdraw from territory occupied in 1967, we would be ready to negotiate or do anything to achieve that end. Far from getting a promise, we did not succeed even in getting a disengagement with Israel in the Jordan Valley...
...Brother China, started a reign of terror at home and abroad. Cambodians were driven from Phnom-Penh to the countryside; thousands, including Communists, were purged and killed, and thousands more fled the country. Obsessed with their long hatred of a powerful neighbor, the Cambodians forced Viet Nam to withdraw from the Parrot's Beak. The Khmer Rouge, meanwhile, also occupied several disputed islands in the Gulf of Siam, forcing Vietnamese to leave. After that, relations between the two neighbors disintegrated into a series of border raids punctuated by ineffectual attempts to negotiate their differences...
...That resolution, adopted by the U.N. Security Council in 1967, in effect acknowledges Israel's right to exist. It also includes such phrases as "secure and recognized borders" (which the Arabs take to mean that Israel must withdraw from the occupied territories) and "refugee problem" (which, to Israel, means that the Palestinian problem should be solved by resettlement rather than by creation of a political state...
...SASC proposals call for Harvard to divest itself of stocks in banks which loan money to South Africa and to support or initiate shareholder resolutions in all other corporations it holds stock in that do business in South Africa calling for those firms to withdraw their operations...