11.   International donors may continue withholding aid, a crippling blow to a nation where foreign support in the past has accounted for more than half the budget.

12.   Leahy also has led the effort to withhold US aid to governments with records of human-rights violations.

13.   Kirk dismissed the suggestion that the U.S. should withhold Mexican aid until the debt is paid off, saying that would do too much harm to the Mexican economy.

14.   Lester Munson, a spokesman for Gilman, said that the attempt to force an extradition by withholding aid was very unusual.

15.   Nonetheless, some veterans advocates are outraged by the push for industry compensation from the same administration that withheld aid from veterans.

16.   The accord was prompted in part by a federal law that withholds aid from states where registries do not meet certain standards.

17.   The bank is withholding financial aid to Kenya until the government of President Daniel arap Moi takes serious steps toward addressing corruption.

18.   The Clinton administration is struggling to resolve differences with Russia while leading Republicans threaten to withhold aid unless Moscow cancels a nuclear energy deal with Iran.

19.   The threat that Congress would withhold federal aid could hardly have been plainer.

20.   The Supreme Court on Monday cleared the way for Vermont to keep providing tuition assistance to private, secular schools, while withholding similar aid from parochial institutions.