Word: pullout
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...influence the process rather than walk away. Once you walk away you have no influence,” Daniel says, citing Harvard’s pullout of investment in South Africa during apartheid during the 1980s...
...Putin announced a partial troop withdrawal from the troubled region of Chechnya, where rebel guerrillas continue to take their toll on weary Russian armed forces. While Putin did not specify troop numbers, officials said that as many as 80,000 soldiers could leave Chechnya in the coming months. The pullout, however, remains merely a declared intention. The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe welcomed the statement and restored full voting rights to Russia, which were suspended in April last year over Russia?s human rights record in Chechnya...
...Iraq doesn?t produce some testy moments, the Balkans will. Europeans raged at campaign hints from Bush and Rice that they would order a pullout of American forces from nato?s peacekeeping operations in Bosnia and Kosovo. Now the Administration is backing off?Rice has said that ?it is important to review American deployments? but that ?any review will take place with allies.? Still, the U.S. will likely insist that its troop numbers be reduced?even though the U.S. accounts for less than 20% of the total peacekeeping force in the Balkans?and will move toward a burden-sharing arrangement...
...Take U.S. troops in Bosnia. You have just reaffirmed "our intention" to hand over peacekeeping to the Europeans. A U.S. pullout will hardly increase Europe's trust in Washington. Or enhance U.S. leadership. And what about the next ethnic cleansing? Do you really want to liberate the perpetrators from the threat of American retribution...
...Hizballah to carry out attacks against Israel even after we leave. It's quite a surrealistic picture... They are playing quite a dangerous game there. I believe that the intelligence communities of the leading nations are watching it. So if violence will be initiated against Israel after our pullout, it won't be complicated for us to identify who is behind it. Even if they appear under bizarre names--the Deprived on Earth or the Eagles of the Revolution, it doesn't matter. We will know how to detect it and respond against the power players...