Word: withdrawing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...shut up for a while. Nonetheless, the approach paid off in a lightning series of agreements: Aug. 30, Milosevic announced he had the Bosnian Serbs' accord to negotiate for them; Sept. 8, broad settlement was reached on constitutional principles for a new Bosnia; Sept. 14, Bosnian Serbs agreed to withdraw heavy weapons from around Sarajevo and allow U.N. access; Oct. 5, a cease-fire agreement that seemed finally to have taken hold; and now the proximity talks...
...Nikita Khrushchev or anyone in Moscow--held the authority to launch tactical nuclear weapons in case of a U.S. invasion. Castro also claimed that Khrushchev inadvertently read him a letter sent by John F. Kennedy to the Kremlin during the crisis. In the letter Kennedy promised to quietly withdraw U.S. missiles from Italy and Turkey if Khrushchev would remove the missiles from Cuba. It has long been known that Kennedy made the offer concerning Turkey, but mention of Italy...
...October Federal Judge Harold Baer Jr. decided that the first casualties of the heartburn wars would be the overblown claims, ordering both sides to withdraw or modify those that could not be proved. He later ordered SmithKline to correct a letter it had sent to doctors and pharmacists to "ensure that [they] had not been misled" about the lawsuits between SmithKline and J&J/Merck...
...opposes Harvard's plans to withdraw apartment units from the real estate market and feels Harvard "must recognize its role as a member of the community...
...REFERRED TO U.S. STATE DEPARTment official Richard Holbrooke's "diplomatic coup" in negotiating the Serbs' promise to withdraw their heavy weapons from around Sarajevo. I'm sorry, but it's hardly a "diplomatic coup" when you bomb the hell out of people and they finally do what you tell them to do. I'm absolutely not taking sides, but semantics can be dangerous. Remember back when the Vietnamese people were being "pacified"? DARRELL HORN Winnipeg, Manitoba...