21.   All sides also agreed to continue a news blackout on the bargaining status.

22.   But it was the news blackout that made the scheme seem sinister.

23.   By wielding a news blackout, tear gas and martial law, Hu snuffed out the protests without embarrassing Beijing.

24.   Claiming that Israeli negotiators had rejected the U.S. plan, Palestinian spokesman Ahmed Tibi broke with a U.S.-imposed news blackout to talk with reporters at Wye.

25.   He added that the company and the researchers, not the patient, had set the policy of the news blackout.

26.   He declined to stay what the major stumbling blocks were, maintaining that the news blackout which has been in force would remain in his absence.

27.   If this modified news blackout continues, several competing forces could control the spin from the battlefield.

28.   In keeping with a news blackout meant to insulate the negotiations from the pressures of media speculation, Boucher would not discuss the details of the negotiations.

29.   In the Persian Gulf, there was a news blackout during the invasion of Iraq.