One of the more provocative options would punish provinces that failed to cooperate with the Americans by withdrawing economic assistance and security.

An unnamed congressman threatened to withdraw financial assistance to Lebanon.

That move was a critical first step in the effort to woo back Western donors, who have withdrawn desperately needed financial assistance from Zimbabwe, saying the economy is severely mismanaged.

When you withdraw Federal assistance from housing rehabilitation and neighborhood improvement and other programs," he says, "it means the councils have to find ways to come up with funds themselves.

In July 1956 the United States withdrew financial assistance for Egypt's Aswan Dam project, leading Egypt to nationalize the Suez Canal Company.

Instead, Administration officials softened some of the original Wisconsin provisions, refusing, for example, to let the state withdraw medical assistance after the time limit ends.

Human rights groups condemned the administration's latest tactic of using the threat of withdrawing military assistance as a tool in those negotiations.

For example, we learn that Soyinka met with Shimon Peres in 1998 in an attempt to persuade the Israelis to withdraw assistance to Abacha's security forces.

The only Hall that did not withdraw skilled assistance was the Healer Hall.

It also includes plans to withdraw advice and assistance under legal aid green form scheme in asylum and other immigration cases.