Word: pullout
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Establishments And, on the whole, they are right to idolize these activists for their commitment to a cause and for their advocacy of nonviolent yet vocal protest. Without the radicals, goes the generally persuasive left-wing interpretation, the Vietnam disaster would have been that much bloodier and the U.S. pullout that much later, if it ever materialized And Richard Nixon might never have been forced from office...
...Middle East. A deadline long regarded with something close to dread by U.S. policymakers passed by safely at week's end. For months the U.S. has been concerned that something might delay the scheduled Israeli pullout from the Sinai on April 25. As he started his Falklands shuttle, Haig dispatched his No. 2 man, Deputy Secretary of State Walter Stoessel, in the hope that his mere presence would have a calming effect. The Israeli bombing of Lebanon at midweek stirred U.S. officials to private fury, but the State Department contented itself with a mild public statement while getting messages...
...other areas of foreign policy, the U.S. also appears to be increasingly on the defensive. American officials fear that after Israel completes its pullout from the Sinai on April 25-or even before-Prime Minister Menachem Begin will order the long-expected military action against Palestinian forces in Lebanon. Washington seems to have no ideas on how to stop him. China threatens increasingly loudly to downgrade relations with the U.S. if the Administration goes through with a $60 million arms sale to Taiwan. Said one State Department official: "We get a ding a day from the Chinese." At week...
...consensus here is that the American pullout will be a minor irritant to Gaddafi, who will be able to find ample technicians and workers in Europe and elsewhere to replace the departing Yanks. Old Libya hands are equally certain that Gaddafi will go to extreme lengths to avoid allowing Soviet technicians to come in and help with the oil production. Indeed, Gaddafi seems careful to keep the 3,000 to 5,000 Soviet advisers now in Libya isolated in outlying military posts. The representative of TASS news agency in Tripoli complained openly last week about the Soviet inability to persuade...
...other backers of the mujahedin, Karmal claims, are not really interested in a Soviet pullout: "The forces of hegemonism and imperialism do not want the contingent to withdraw. Why? Because for them the continued presence here of our friends is a pretext that they can exploit against the Soviet Union...