21.   Caribbean leaders dismissed claims that they aid in tax evasion as merely a hypocritical effort to recoup revenues and business that have shifted to the region.

22.   Conservative leaders dismissed the move as attention-getting.

23.   Earlier in the day he tried to launch what he called a new initiative on Bosnia, but the other leaders dismissed it as an old proposal.

24.   Government leaders dismiss the corruption charges as groundless.

25.   GOP leaders dismissed the party-switching as an election-year convenience.

26.   Halle city leaders dismissed the ruling as absurd, saying that if five stores could open, all stores could.

27.   Israeli and Palestinian leaders promptly dismissed the reports.

28.   Macedonian leaders have consistently dismissed the rebels as a small band of guerrillas that can be stamped out with military might or starved into submission.

29.   Milosevic had declared a cease-fire for Orthodox Easter weekend but Western leaders dismissed that as a sham.

30.   Milosevic had declared a unilateral cease-fire for the holiday weekend, but Western leaders quickly dismissed that as a sham.