11.   We hope that you will reconsider your opposition and enable the issue to be discussed and voted on this fall in the Senate.

12.   An ANC summit on spiraling crime in South Africa decided Sunday the party should reconsider its opposition to capital punishment.

13.   Barak asked Meretz, another dovish party committed to secular rights, to reconsider its opposition to entering a government with Shas.

14.   But a legislator from her party, John Barritt, says he may have to reconsider his opposition to independence.

15.   Germany Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer urged the U.S. administration to reconsider its opposition.

16.   Meanwhile, religious leaders in South Carolina appealed to Democratic Sen. Ernest Hollings to reconsider his opposition to Ashcroft.

17.   Sen. Conrad Burns, a Montana Republican and a co-sponsor of legislation to arm pilots, asked Magaw to reconsider his opposition.

18.   Some countries had hoped President Clinton might reconsider his opposition once the presidential election was over.

19.   U.N. refugee officials are reconsidering their opposition to forced repatriation of African refugees because of changing realities on the ground.

20.   India expects Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf to reconsider his opposition to handing over militants wanted by New Delhi, Foreign Minister Jaswant Singh said Sunday.