Word: pullout
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...after U.S. pressure the two countries signed an agreement last May under which the Lebanese would conduct future negotiations with Israel "on the movement of goods, products and persons" across the Israeli-Lebanese border, and the Israelis would withdraw their forces from the country. The Israelis, however, made their pullout contingent on a simultaneous withdrawal of the remaining P.L.O. forces as well as the Syrians, who control most of the Bekaa Valley and much of northern Lebanon. When the Syrians refused to leave, so did the Israelis. Only on Sept. 3, under pressure from politicians and citizens back home...
...imaginary clock running. Unless Congress declares war or authorizes the deployment to continue, the resolution requires the President to withdraw the forces within 60 days (the period can be extended to 90 days by presidential fiat). If he fails to act, the resolution also empowers Congress to force a pullout by passing a "concurrent resolution," which cannot be vetoed by the President...
...moved beyond the unattractive military options that now face them--pulling out to let violence erupt immediately, or upping the peacekeeping pressure until that violence becomes stronger than any barrier. And they must avoid the other easy, backward-looking--and unfair--tack of blaming the violence on the Israeli pullout, so long clamored for, and trying hypocritically to reinvolve Israel in Lebanon's affairs. Instead, the U.S. must marshal all its resources of political analysis for a deeper look--even if it means helping Lebanon change its political structure. When curing a malady's symptoms involves invoking the War Powers...
...until the 1980 imposition of martial law. The guerrilla groups tend to be highly professional: the best-known of them, the Marxist Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA), created in 1975, was trained in the Beirut camps of the Palestine Liberation Organization. The P.L.O.'s pullout from Lebanon last summer may have forced ASALA to move its base to Western Europe...
...Reagan and Gemayel disapproved of the decision, but the U.S. was prepared to go along with it. In a series of meetings that stretched over three days, U.S. officials assured Gemayel that they would stress to the Israelis that any redeployment should be the first stage of a complete pullout. To assuage Gemayel further, the Administration also agreed to transform $150 million in loans to the Lebanese into outright grants. But by the time Reagan met with Gemayel for two hours last Friday, it was clear that the U.S. had no new strategies. Said a senior American diplomat: "Frankly...