Word: withdraws
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...World is an autonomous Soviet decision, the first fruit of Gorbachev's "new thinking." The problem with this theory is that it overlooks one fact. In this sense it is very much like the common explanation of Gorbachev's acquiescence to American terms for the INF treaty. Did Gorbachev withdraw his SS-20s from Europe because of a change in ideology? Because he wanted to turn his attention to domestic tasks? In fact, he withdrew because he met resistance that he could not overcome. The U.S. responded to the SS-20s by deploying a powerful INF force...
...game. Recalls Coffin: "Word got around the gym that Left and Right were meeting on the center court, and we had quite an audience by the end, but George wouldn't give up." Jim Baker found he had the same problem getting Bush to give up in 1980, to withdraw from the presidential race in time to position himself as a vice-presidential candidate. Bush does not yield easily, something he proved in his scrappy comeback after finishing behind both Robert Dole and Pat Robertson in this year's Iowa caucuses...
...sides agreed to conduct further talks in secrecy. Last week Pretoria broke that understanding by publicly offering to pull its 3,000 troops out of Angola by September and to grant independence to neighboring Namibia, which it now administers, by next June. South Africa demanded that Cuba also withdraw its estimated 50,000 troops from Angola by June. In response, Cuban Negotiator Carlos Aldana Escalante said it was "preposterous and unrealistic" for his country's soldiers to leave Angola within a year. But when the latest negotiations ended last week, the parties issued a joint communique stating that they...
According to center officials, the Venezuelangovernment, which gives money to the EEPC and isagainst an oil tariff, "came out and said it was abiased study" although they did not withdraw theirmoney from the center...
Rondeau said she did not expect the University administration to withdraw its objections to the union's election-day conduct and agree to the union's proposed panel hearing...