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...Moroccans have claimed the disputed region since precolonial times. In 1975, when Spanish Dictator Francisco Franco lay on his deathbed, Hassan led 300,000 of his unarmed subjects on a March across the border into the Spanish Sahara. The ploy worked. Spain withdrew from the colony immediately, I leaving the northern two-thirds to Morocco and the southern third to Mauritania. Nobody asked the inhabitants, believed to number about 100,000, what they wanted for their country. As it turned out, many of them wanted independence and, toward that end, banded together in a guerrilla fighting force...
...takes action. O'Neill also threatened to call a vote on Reagan's original budget, claiming, "The President complained to us yesterday that his budget had not been taken up." Washington Congressman Thomas Foley, the Democratic whip, had no doubt how that vote would go. "If we withdrew every Democrat from the chamber and permitted only Republicans to vote," he predicted, "the President's budget would be resoundingly defeated...
...April 1980 election Burke's opponent for the position of L.A. county supervisor had spent $100,000 having the xeroxed photograph distributed and labeled the picture with the blunt question. "Would you vote for this person." Unable to respond to the blatantly racist ploy, Burke lost the race and withdrew from elective politics at together...
...Development Advisory Service (DAS), which HIID built on and incorporated when it was established in 1974, withdrew from Argentina following a military coup. The following year, similar events forced DAS out of Greece...
After months of second thoughts and soul searching, the Israelis withdrew from the last third of the Sinai Peninsula last week and restored it to Egyptian control, thereby ending 15 years of Israeli occupation. The withdrawal effectively concluded the 1979 Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty, whose undisputed accomplishment had been to end the state of hostilities between Israel and Egypt...