Word: withdrawal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only give in Khrushchev's speech was purely illusory: he still insisted that the Western powers must withdraw their troops from Berlin, but professed willingness to bargain over the deadline date. Delivering this "great new plan" to the Western foreign ministers in Geneva, dour Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko suggested that Moscow might be willing to wait as long as 18 months, instead of a year. Either way it was an ultimatum, though Gromyko quibbled at calling it that. At this bleak point, 41 days after they had first assembled in Geneva, the Big Four foreign ministers at last...
...four Harvard spare oarsmen, two from each crew, had planned to enter competition for the Wyfold Challenge Cup, but had to withdraw when they couldn't find a suitable sponsor...
Last year the Corporation slashed $100,000 from the proposed athletic budget. The result of this economy move forced the Faculty Committee on Athletics to relegate lacrosse and golf to "clubs" and to withdraw financial support from skiing, sailing, rifle, and pistol...
...publish its substance afterwards. De Gaulle managed to excoriate :his French critics in Algeria-and satisfy them at the same time. The F.L.N., De Gaulle assured Laffont, "does not represent Algeria or even the Moslems of Algeria. I have informed all bona fide states that France would immediately withdraw its ambassador from any country that recognized this political organization." De Gaulle had no intentions of negotiating independence with the rebels, only a ceasefire...
...aback as the Arias-Fonteyn flop placed Panama in a spotlight of world attention. He ordered his brother, Armed Forces Chief Raúl Castro, to come to Houston for a private talk. The Castros sent a pair of their bearded officers to Panama to persuade the invaders to withdraw...