31.   Relations between Malaysia and Singapore are generally harmonious, though critical remarks by Singapore Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew temporarily soured ties.

32.   Singapore elder statesman Lee Kuan Yew says critical remarks by U.S. Vice President Al Gore during his recent visit to Malaysia were unnecessary, Singapore TV reported Thursday.

33.   The critical remarks are the latest from Iraq against Ekeus, a Swedish diplomat who heads the U.N. weapons monitoring program.

34.   The Montenegrin was careful not to make critical remarks about Kosovo on Wednesday.

35.   Yeltsin, directing unusually critical remarks at Clinton for the second straight day, renewed warnings that U.S. bombing raids against Iraq could spark a world war.

36.   He was held under arrest for a few days in February last year after making critical remarks about the military regimed at a press conference.

37.   The United States Tuesday repudiated strongly critical remarks about France and Zaire attributed to its ambassador to Zaire by a Zairean paper as not accurately reflecting US policy.

38.   ITAR-TASS quoted Lebed on his return to Moscow saying he was not sure that the critical remarks attributed to Yeltsin were actually made by the president himself.