Word: withdrawing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Italy, which had three soldiers killed in Somalia earlier this month, immediately threatened to withdraw its 2,400 troops unless the goals of the mission were reassessed. The Germans, who have sent only 250 of a promised 1,700-strong contingent, grumbled that it was a mistake to have soldiers in Somalia at all. In Washington, Democrat Robert Byrd thundered a warning that "the Senate has not bought into a police action against Somali warlords...
...After hearing the concerns of anti-Vietnam War student protests, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) votes to withdraw all curricular and academic status from ROTC, Cadets could now only participate...
...more protection from Clinton Democrats than they received in the entire deregulated Republican 1980s. When Reno Air cried foul after Northwest Airlines tried to squeeze the smaller carrier out of the Los Angeles, San Diego and Seattle markets last March, Transportation Secretary Federico Pena pressured the bigger carrier to withdraw under the threat of antitrust action...
Apparently, the father was unhappy because the Yard was under construction--so unhappy that he wanted to withdraw his child from the summer program...
...jumping-off point for Orion. Nancy Whittredge, a reporter for an all-news radio station, is accosted after leaving the bank lobby by two thugs with a gun who take her to an abandoned garage and rape her repeatedly. Later she's forced to return to the machine and withdraw the rest of the money from her account...