31.   They stopped their convoy before reaching the border and demanded new promises of safe passage, said Vladimir Vasilyev of the Interior Ministry in Moscow.

32.   They want a new face who can make new promises.

33.   Top U.S. diplomats conferred Thursday with the regional powerbroker, Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, on a plan that showed new promise of bringing peace to former Yugoslavia.

34.   Yeltsin, intent on pleasing voters with his re-election bid in trouble, has issued a series of new spending promises in recent weeks that appear to threaten reforms.

35.   With an election looming and Labor holding double-digit leads in opinion polls, Blair made few new promises but reviewed the key objectives of a Labor government.

36.   Yeltsin has tried recently to undo the damage of economic reform with a whirlwind of new promises during the campaign, pledging to pay back wages and fill pocketbooks.

37.   He noted the pledges differed with each member, some merely reiterating commitments already given under the Uruguay Round of trade negotiations rather than making new promises.

38.   The markets are more interested in structural reforms of the economy than to new promises of public spending along the same lines as earlier packages, he said.