21.   Algerian officials have rejected calls by human rights groups for an international inquiry into the killings.

22.   Both factions have rejected calls to disarm pending the outcome of the peace talks.

23.   Both sides this month rejected UN calls for truce.

24.   Bush press secretary Karen Hughes rejected the call for new recounts.

25.   But authorities in Weimar have rejected repeated calls for an exhumation and scientific analysis.

26.   But Bush has rejected calls to freeze or stretch out future tax reductions and has characterized such a recommendation as tantamount to a tax increase.

27.   But it has rejected calls to pump large amounts of money into the economy to raise prices and stimulate consumer demand.

28.   But Reno rejected calls for a moratorium on federal death penalty cases.

29.   But Major stopped short of an apology and rejected calls for a new inquiry.

30.   But the Government rejected a call to lift foreign ownership restrictions, which Mr Chau says other countries have.