91.   But a State Department official in Washington said Patterson told department officials by telephone that she did not see it as an assassination attempt.

92.   But adherents continue to frustrate officials by surreptitiously distributing Falun Gong materials, sometimes shoving pamphlets into letter boxes.

93.   But it also says the IRA should have begun negotiating with disarmament officials by now.

94.   But the Russian Foreign Ministry angered Iraqi officials by urging them to allow U.N. weapons inspectors back in to the country in exchange for lifting the sanctions.

95.   Clinton has angered some western lawmakers and local officials by invoking the Antiquities Act on previous occasions to set aside millions of acres of land for special protection.

96.   Congolese rebel leader Ernest Wamba dia Wamba told journalists in the Ugandan capital Kampala that he has been speaking with Zimbabwean officials by telephone.

97.   Criticism of senior officials by the union is rare, but the Iranian media have become bolder since a moderate president, Mohammad Khatami, took over in August.

98.   Details of the offer were presented privately to U.N. officials by Foreign Minister Ali Alatas in New York earlier this week.

99.   Efforts to contact local officials by telephone Saturday were unsuccessful.

100.   England stunned Games officials by offering up an amateur team, which was refused, when told Games organizers would not pay the players.