41.   The German leader has been the main driving force behind the plan for a common currency, to be called the euro, uniting EU nations.

42.   The German leader, Gerhard Schroeder, also expressed reservations when the issue was discussed on Thursday in Berlin.

43.   The hostile bid has also shocked at least some German industrial leaders.

44.   The trend has not sat well with German corporate leaders, who have only infrequently been the target of energetic prosecutors.

45.   This was as if a top German leader had said the other day that France and Poland had agreed on their own to be occupied by Hitler.

46.   Throughout the Cold War, German leaders routinely campaigned for the right of ethnic Germans to return home.

47.   To finance World War I, German leaders took the previous currency, the Reichsmark, off the gold standard.

48.   A German Jewish leader said Friday he hoped for a quick resolution to claims by Holocaust victims against German banks following the settlement reached this week with Swiss institutions.

49.   A prominent German Jewish leader condemned the attack as a sign that far-right hate is not limited to the economically struggling east.

50.   Ahtisaari, who had originally planned to accompany Chernomyrdin, instead flew to Bonn on Thursday for talks with German leaders.