Word: pullout
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more immediate interest to diplomats was Eagleburger's suggestion that a compromise on Namibia was near. Ironically, it was the Reagan Administration that helped to stall talks on autonomy for the territory's 1 million inhabitants last year when it linked the proposed Cuban pullout from Angola to a South African withdrawal from Namibia. South Africa had not originally insisted on the Cuban withdrawal, but it subsequently fastened on the U.S. position as a delaying tactic. Last week Eagleburger fell back on the concept of "reciprocity" in the negotiations, a code word for a carefully timed agreement...
...regions, and repeated the U.S. desire "to see Afghanistan's agony brought to an end through Soviet troop withdrawal as part of a negotiated settlement." Western military analysts in Pakistan said that the Soviets may be trying to soften up their withdrawal routes for the time when a pullout is arranged. But Moscow was hardly taking any chances. In Ghazni, south of Kabul, some 10,000 Soviet troops, along with ground and air support, were reportedly massed in preparation for a maneuver to seal off the border with Pakistan...
...questions are answered, the agreement still faces what may turn out to be its most difficult test: approval by Syria, which was not a party to the negotiations, but retains some 40,000 troops in Lebanon. Although the accord deals only with Israeli troops, Jerusalem has insisted its pullout is contingent upon the simultaneous withdrawal of all Syrian and P.L.O. forces. Thus if Syrian President Hafez Assad refuses to remove his army, Israeli soldiers will stay in Lebanon indefinitely. Shultz flew to Damascus on Saturday, declaring on arrival that he wanted to discuss "ways of putting...
...united in death innocent Lebanese and Americans and strengthened the determination of our two countries to continue to work together." As if to send a signal to the bombers, U.S. Negotiator Morris Draper met with Lebanese and Israeli officials the day after the tragedy to continue negotiations on the pullout of foreign troops from Lebanon. Three days later, Reagan announced that he was sending Secretary of State George Shultz to the region this week. His stated mission is to wrap up the withdrawal negotiations, but the hastily arranged trip is also an attempt to revive the President's moribund...
...Africans appear to have fashioned a stalling tactic out of an idea first proposed by the Reagan Administration. As part of its "constructive engagement," Washington declared that it wanted to link Namibian independence and the withdrawal of some 20,000 South African troops stationed in the territory to the pullout of an estimated 20,000 Cuban troops from neighboring Marxist-led Angola. At first the South African government said that it would "not insist" on Cuban withdrawal as part of the independence deal. But now South African Prime Minister Botha is demanding a "clear agreement" on the Cuban departure...