1.   But Councilman Rudy Svorinich of San Pedro said the motion would also hinder his efforts to begin a secession drive in the Harbor and Wilmington areas.

2.   But Rampart also happened on his watch as did the secession drives.

3.   Instead, a secession drive would need the approval of a majority of voters in the area trying to break away as well as the entire city.

4.   Politicians dismissed its secession drive as a gadfly fantasy.

5.   Prince also proposed that the governing board of any secession drive should exclude politicians.

6.   The bigger challenges, the mayor said, are the secession drives in the San Fernando Valley, Hollywood and Harbor areas.

7.   Yaroslavsky said any effort to withhold information also would further exacerbate the frustrations that led to the secession drive in the first place.

8.   He then spent two years in Chechnya, where he became a close associate of Dudayev, who had seized control of the republic and pushed its secession drive.

9.   The firebrand leader of a northern Italian secession drive warned opponents Thursday that refusal to make compromises could unleash an even more militant movement.

10.   But a secession drive was scuttled after Ukrainian authorities ousted the pro-Russian president Yury Meshkov in March and suspended an equally separatist-minded constitution.