The city's Department of Education has withdrawn a contested plan to expand a small successful middle school in East Harlem, officials said yesterday.

"The Department of Health Services will not withdraw or alter the advertisement in question," she wrote.

Under pressure from the Israel lobby and the President Lyndon B. Johnson administration, the Department of Justice later withdrew its demand.

But Brooklyn Historic Railway died in 2002 when the city's Department of Transportation withdrew its support, citing financial problems.

The Department withdrew the portion of the 2009 regulatory proposal that would have required a free registration for crabbers not currently required to have a license.

In a letter to Department of Labor Secretary Solis, signed by 29 other Senators, Lugar asked that the Department "withdraw the Proposed Rule immediately."

As a result of these concerns, we request the Department withdraw the Proposed Rule in its entirety," the Senators state in a letter to Secretary Solis.

The owners of the mine, Carnon Consolidated, had closed it down in February after the Department of Trade and Industry withdrew financial support.

Regretfully, the Department withdrew its logistical support.

The last federal Department of Defense personnel withdrew in 1962, turning over the entire island as a state park in December of the same year.