Word: withdrawn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Marine casualties heightened the confusion over the precise role and duration of the U.S. peace-keeping mission. At his Washington press conference last week, the President astounded aides by intimating that the Marines would not leave Beirut until all Israeli and Syrian forces had withdrawn from Lebanon. Officials at the State Department and White House subsequently issued elaborate clarifications of what Reagan really meant. State Department Spokesman Alan Romberg insisted that the withdrawal of foreign troops was a goal but not "a criterion" for a U.S. departure. Testifying on Capitol Hill, Assistant Secretary of State Nicholas Veliotes...
...without preconditions, for at least three months. Thus the question might be finessed with Sadat. No luck. When I showed my new draft to Sadat, he stated that there were preconditions, one being the airfields, the other the settlements, and that he would negotiate on when they would be withdrawn...
...State Department however appeared to retreat from Reagan's pledge that the Marines will remain in Lebanon until other foreign forces are withdrawn...
...just proposed. The matter involved the concerns of our allies, and we could not put ourselves in the position of appearing to trade their protection for our own. But in fact President Kennedy had long since reached the conclusion that the outmoded and vulnerable missiles in Turkey should be withdrawn. In the spring of 1961 Secretary Rusk had begun the necessary discussions with high Turkish officials. These officials asked for delay, at least until Polaris submarines could be deployed in the Mediterranean. While the matter was not pressed to a conclusion in the following year and a half, the missile...
Although for separate reasons neither the public nor the private assurance ever became a formal commitment of the U.S. Government, the validity of both was demonstrated by our later actions; there was no invasion of Cuba, and the vulnerable missiles in Turkey (and Italy) were withdrawn, with allied concurrence, to be replaced by invulnerable Polaris submarines. Both results were in our own clear interest, and both assurances were helpful in making it easier for the Soviet government to decide to withdraw its missiles...