Word: withdrawing
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...effort to urge the administration of President Bush to withdraw from Central America by Christmas, and to further other activist causes, Joseph Moynahan founded the local group "U.S. Citizens Revolt." At his demonstration yesterday, Moynahan attached $500 in one-dollar bills--each inscribed with "BO" for "Bush Out"--to helium balloons, which he then released over the Square...
...government would do well in Central America to follow Gorbachev's example in Eastern Europe: withdraw support from unsuccessful, unpopular and brutal governments. While it is probably too late to win the hearts of the rebels, it is in our interest to come down on the side of human rights in our hemisphere by withdrawing military aid from El Salvador. In doing so, we might gain the praise of Costa Rica and set an example for Guatemala and Honduras...
...1940s and 1950s and has its own history, but nowadays there are no grounds to have bases that threaten us. It is time that the U.S. think it over. In a number of countries, troops are deployed because of the results of World War II. We should agree to withdraw them. In Europe, that applies not only to the armed forces of the U.S. and the Soviet Union but to all states that have troops on foreign territory. Step by step, all should be withdrawn...
...Vatican has also ordered bishops to withdraw support from groups that either are "ambiguous" or "neglect" the church's teaching. That was aimed especially at Dignity/USA, an organization that has 5,000 members in 100 chapters and formerly held Masses with church approval in dozens of cities. In the wake of that attack, the national Dignity convention last September declared clear-cut opposition to the church's moral teaching...
...Prime Minister Mazowiecki has no plans to withdraw Poland from the Warsaw Pact, and an alliance declaration in July forbade the use of pact troops in the affairs of member nations. Still, Poland plans to push for further bilateral assurances. The Soviets are pressing NATO for a mutual phasing out of the Eastern and Western military alliances, but Moscow is certain to reject individual initiatives by pact members. As Soviet spokesman Gennadi Gerasimov said last week, "We may witness a change of government in Warsaw or Budapest, but international obligations do not necessarily go away with a change of government...