11.   The league informed its owners it will shut down unless a group of players withdraws its threat to file an anti-trust lawsuit against the league.

12.   Police had ordered the activists to leave for safety reasons and the group reportedly withdrew because they feared their boats and other equipment might be seized.

13.   After the murder of six relief workers last December, humanitarian aid groups withdrew from Chechnya, and have returned only in the past few weeks.

14.   An anti-abortion group withdrew an injunction it had obtained against the abortion after it had learned that it had already taken place.

15.   Anderson suggests, for example, that if warlords cannot guarantee the safe delivery of food, aid groups should withdraw.

16.   Citing similar reasons, the group had earlier withdrawn a proposal to build an international airport at Bangalore in southern India.

17.   Gen. Joaquin Cuadra, armed forces commander, said Saturday an anti-government group has withdrawn its threat to attack security forces and election observers.

18.   He has threatened to pull Inkatha out of the government and his group has withdrawn from an elected assembly writing a new South African constitution.

19.   Most relief groups have withdrawn international staff from Mogadishu to reassess security.

20.   Nick Nyhart, executive director of Public Campaign, said his group has also withdrawn its support over the hard money issue.