41.   Palme was killed first by mere coincidence after Pettersson happened to run into him and shot him on the spot, Svensson said.

42.   Foreign Ministry officials said the timing was a mere coincidence.

43.   Lock said he took the same train as Sandra Gregory to the airport and was booked for the same flight, but claimed this was a mere coincidence.

44.   Prosecutors said it was mere coincidence that the two were to die on the same day.

45.   The meeting had been set up long ago, and it was mere coincidence that it came on the heels of the acquittal.

46.   Though a matter of mere coincidence, both Classic and Peregrine headed for disaster after their separation.

47.   WAS it mere coincidence that the movie Joy Luck Club was shown on television a day before a young mother killed her daughter and jumped to her death?

48.   But Kolzig has yet to see action in his home arena, a rotation coach Jim Schoenfeld said is mere coincidence.

49.   But Zhu said Friday the absence of an overt threat to use force was a mere coincidence.

50.   Meanwhile Russian President Boris Yeltsin continued convalescing from a minor operation whose timing observers were quick to see as more than mere coincidence.