Word: withdrawn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Economic Development Administration approved the funds a year ago, Vickery said, adding that there is no immediate danger of the funds being withdrawn...
...Obote-hating Baganda tribesmen, and the People's Revolutionary Army led by ex-Defense Minister Yoweri Museveni-are biding their time until June. That is when the 10,000 Tanzanian troops who remained in Uganda after they helped to overthrow Amin in 1979 are scheduled to be withdrawn. Their departure will leave a dangerous power vacuum. Speculates a Western diplomat: "Any of three things could happen. Obote might hang on. The guerrillas might overthrow him. Or he might be ousted by dissatisfied elements within his own party...
...Giscard's France, parliament has relatively little power. It has managed to discourage Giscard from pursuing some of his legislative projects. Since only 119 members of his 274-seat ruling parliamentary coalition are formal Giscard supporters, he has on occasion tactically withdrawn from a potential fray. Giscard's Premier, Raymond Barre, however has used special constitutional powers to ram through government budgets over the grumbling of Gaullist allies. Says Giscard: "I have exercised my powers as they are conferred by the constitution. These critics are trying to weaken power. I say it bluntly: those who want weak power...
...abolished. Then Parliament indicated that it would prepare the necessary legislation for effective repeal, but it was still pondering the legislation when Brixton exploded. What added a final poignancy to the violence was the fact that the extra police details in Brixton were to have been withdrawn within a very few days...
...team performed a procedure known as peritoneal lavage. Surgeons Benjamin Aaron and Joseph Giordano, who headed up the trauma team, made a small incision just below the President's navel, inserted a tube and infused several liters of fluid, filling the abdominal cavity. Then the fluid was withdrawn and examined for blood. It was clear, indicating that Reagan had suffered no injury to abdominal organs...