Word: withdrawn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...General Dynamics Corp. has faced a series of accusations that it bilked the Government of hundreds of millions of dollars in construction-cost overruns for the Trident submarine. Last week it was disclosed that the nation's largest arms manufacturer, with $7.2 billion in military contracts last year, had withdrawn $491,840 in charges to the Defense Department for air travel by its chairman, David S. Lewis, and other executives. The bill included 76 flights that Lewis made in Sabreliner and Gulfstream III company jets from General Dynamics headquarters in St. Louis to his farm in Albany...
...July the terrorists drove into the project's central village of Aucayacu, ordered residents to stay indoors and sprayed the town with bullets, killing five policemen. Three other policemen were ambushed and killed outside of Aucayacu as they went to the rescue. Most of the program's workers were withdrawn from the town...
...more interested in disarmament than the U.S. was. So was the First Secretary of the party, Nikita Khrushchev. The head of our department, Tsarapkin, told me that Khrushchev was very bitter that at the London negotiations, there had been sudden changes in the American position, and the U.S. had withdrawn what our side considered a significant concession...
Kiely added that if other masters had agreed to speak at the forum, he would not have withdrawn from the list of discussion participants. "The organization of the evens was not as good as it could have been," he said...
...months after a series of blunders by French Foreign Minister Claude Cheysson, rumors of his departure had been gaining momentum. He committed his most serious faux pas last month when he stated flatly that Libyan forces had withdrawn from northern Chad, only to have an embarrassed President Francois Mitterrand admit several days later that the troops were still there. The rumors were finally borne out last week when Mitterrand tersely announced Cheysson's appointment to the European Commission, the executive body of the European Community...