31.   Lazio later defended that view during his first televised debate against Clinton, a faceoff in Buffalo.

32.   Lieberman would not commit to a debate against Giordano, the Waterbury mayor who has accused him of being an absentee senator since his elevation to the national ticket.

33.   Meanwhile, the first lady called for a series of debates against the congressman from Long Island, starting as soon as possible.

34.   More pertinently, it turned the tide of the debate against the trade unions.

35.   Polls showed Vicente Fox also won the first televised debate against ruling party candidate Francisco Labastida, which was last month.

36.   President Jacques Chirac on Tuesday said he would refuse to hold a televised debate against extreme-right election rival Jean-Marie Le Pen out of principle.

37.   Primakov was also slow to speak out publicly against the Communist-led impeachment debate against Yeltsin, which has been postponed until mid-May.

38.   Rep. Rick Lazio, the new Republican Senate candidate facing Hillary Rodham Clinton, says he is looking forward to debates against the first lady.

39.   Sanan was responding to a threat by the opposition to bring a censure debate against the administration and to campaign outside Parliament against the government.

40.   She has called for a series of debates against Lazio.