21.   The State Department ordered a withdrawal of nonessential personnel from the U.S. Embassy.

22.   The U.N. Security Council ordered the withdrawal of all U.N. troops last November because the Somalis had failed to make any progress on political reconciliation.

23.   The withdrawal was ordered as international negotiations continue to search for a peaceful future for the former Portuguese territory.

24.   They passed a law in August ordering the withdrawal of all foreign armed forces from Haiti.

25.   He refused to order the withdrawal of heavy weapons around Sarajevo as demanded by the UN before air strikes can be called off.

26.   Hidayat said that the court also discharged the defendant from the armed forces and ordered the withdrawal of four military honors that the defendant received during his service.

27.   In Baghdad, Information Minister Hamed Yussef Hammadi said earlier that Iraq had ordered the withdrawal of its last crack Republican Guard in the south.

28.   The refusal of the Bosnian government to order the withdrawal of refugees from a village in Serb-held Bosnia threatens future returns, NATO warned Friday.

29.   Thursday the Conservative Party ordered the withdrawal of its ministers from the Liberal Party government in a show of no confidence.

30.   Last month Russian President Boris Yeltsin signed a decree ordering the withdrawal of all troops from Chechnya.