Word: yanking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Kremlin says the advisers will stay on until their contracts expire, though it has not said when that will happen. Among the reasons for Moscow's reluctance to yank them out swiftly are fears that Saddam would retaliate by taking hostage the 9,000 Soviet citizens stuck in Iraq. The Soviets are also eager to maintain a toehold in Iraq for the purpose of influencing the outcome of the crisis...