Word: withdrawnness
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Given the bloodshed predicted, Haiti proved to be a remarkable triumph last week. It is even possible that the deal may stick when the muscle behind it is withdrawn. So why does Bill Clinton's Haitian success have that insistent scent of failure about it? Was it only the stumbling way in which war was avoided? Or the spectacle of a former President in the lair of "thugs," declaring them to be men of honor and denouncing his own country's policy as shameful? It's tempting to focus on Jimmy Carter. We don't encounter him much these days...
...great speech" and that it might start a desired rally-round-the-President mood among the U.S. public. Nonetheless, it was not fully convincing. Despite the cloak of multinational support, this is from start to finish essentially a U.S. operation. Clinton pledged that the initial American forces would be withdrawn "in months, not years." But even though the U.S. would officially hand over responsibility to a U.N. peacekeeping operation that would stay until Aristide's successor is elected, the President failed to mention that as much as half that U.N. force, or some 3,000 troops, would also be American...
Michael had grown quiet, withdrawn, in the days leading up to that Sunday afternoon in July. She glanced at the heavy flashlight on the stone fireplace and thought of grabbing it, hitting him on the head and getting the gun away. But she was afraid something would go wrong, so she stayed where she was. He put the gun to his head...
...Cassidy wrote that a review of Lee'spersonal bank records revealed that the moneydeposited into his bank account was withdrawn byJuly...
...money was withdrawn as cash and as payments for personal expenses, Cassidy said...