11.   But it is pointless to try to deny the link between more handguns and increased murder and suicide.

12.   But spokesmen for the White House and the Clinton campaign vigorously denied any link between campaign donations and sleepovers at the White House.

13.   But the Mets denied any link.

14.   But the White House and the Clinton campaign vigorously denied any link between campaign donations and sleepovers at the White House.

15.   But Valentine and Mets executives denied any link.

16.   But the three countries that use depleted uranium to produce weapons, France, Britain and the United States, denying any link.

17.   But, like other Israeli officials, he was at pains to deny a link between the killing and the rupture of the cease-fire.

18.   Christopher Buckley remembers watching television one night and being amused by a tobacco spokesman who denied any link between smoking and disease.

19.   Cohen denied any link between the Yugoslav prisoners and the Americans released in Belgrade last weekend.

20.   Curcio, in an interview, denied any link to organized crime.