31.   OPEC is pledging slightly more than that, and ministers insist this time they will deliver.

32.   OPEC ministers insisted there was plenty of crude on hand to meet current demand.

33.   Several ministers were insisting on strict criteria for selecting which cattle to cull, though there was little prospect of resolving that question at the meeting.

34.   Such awkward issues, the ministers insisted, must be left for later.

35.   The defense minister insisted the troops coming into the mountains were being redeployed from elsewhere in Chechnya and that no reinforcements were being sent in.

36.   The defense minister insisted that Europe must have a new security structure to reflect the post-Cold War situation.

37.   The justice minister insists only a small number of people have been falsely accused and imprisoned under a system that permits arrests on the strength of denunciations alone.

38.   The Iraqi minister insisted that his country has already complied fully with U.N. resolutions demanding that it destroy its banned weapons.

39.   The minister insisted that Pinochet can indeed be tried here.

40.   The minister still insists that he had no choice but to ban these cuts after his scientific advisors had said that eating them might carry some risk.