31.   Officials stressed that the plans to relax marijuana laws did not include allowing Dutch-style coffee shops that openly sell the drug.

32.   The Obuchi administration wants to relax the law so that it can more easily issue bonds for generating funds to stimulate the economy.

33.   They want the government to relax laws that allow the president to bar rallies, censor the media, detain people without trial, and control freedom of association.

34.   Utah officials have said repeatedly they would not relax the laws for the Olympics.

35.   With Britain facing a housing shortage, the government should relax laws preventing development in some of the protected rural areas around cities, town planners said Wednesday.

36.   Charles Kennedy, leader of the smaller opposition Liberal Democrat party, said he hoped the incident would help promote a sensible debate about relaxing cannabis laws in Britain.

37.   While overseas unions have already relaxed their laws on professionalism, Twickenham remain steadfast to the amateur ethos.

38.   The lower house of the Polish parliament voted Friday to relax a law requiring public officials to reveal whether they collaborated with the communist-era secret police.