Word: withdrawal
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...team, argues that America's recognition of compulsory jurisdiction requires that the U.S. give six months' notice before it can deny jurisdiction to the court. Says Chayes, who formulated the legal defense for the Kennedy Administration's blockade of Cuba in 1962: "You can't withdraw when the other fellow sues...
...What are the conditions under which you would withdraw troops from Lebanon...
...five-member commission he appointed to investigate the Aquino affair too partisan? He agreed to replace it with a more independent and impartial body. Did a bloody revolution seem imminent after a clash between protesters and policemen that left ten dead? He agreed to withdraw all uniformed soldiers from Manila's financial district and allow the demonstrators to police themselves. Was the daily press nothing more than a servile government mouthpiece? He agreed to let a few alternative papers criticize his policy with impunity...
...Israel to fight. The next day, while Habib was in Damascus waiting to deliver this message, a second message arrived from Begin to Assad, warning that the Syrians should withdraw the additional surface-to-air missile (SAM) batteries that the Israelis claimed were being brought in to reinforce Syrian positions. Habib had delivered the Israeli warnings to the Syrian government but was still waiting to see Assad when the Israeli air force attacked the Syrian SAM sites in the Beka'a Valley, destroying them all and shooting down 23 Syrian MiGs while losing no Israeli aircraft. This sudden attack...
...meaning of committing American troops. Superpower rivalry was reawakened. The breach between Syria and the Soviet Union was mended by huge new shipments of Soviet arms to Syria; Syria announced that under present circumstances, it could not accept the P.L.O.; the P.L.O. reneged on its agreement to withdraw from Lebanon; the Israelis announced that they were making logistical preparations to spend the winter in Lebanon; Shultz, during his confirmation hearings before the Senate, put special emphasis on the "legitimate needs and problems of the Palestinian people"; American policy seemed to be changing again. And again the P.L.O. decided to play...