41.   U.S. Secretary of Defense William Cohen has postponed on short notice a planned two-day visit to Germany the defense ministry in Bonn said Saturday.

42.   However preliminary hearings to decide whether to try the pair were postponed on Wednesday until June while Vanoni is being questioned, judge Maurizio Grigo said.

43.   But on Thursday Megawati postponed the pre-Christmas trip to the provincial capital Jayapura.

44.   The visit was originally planned for this month, but it was postponed on Tuesday.

45.   The summit, scheduled for the Turkmen capital Askhabad, has been postponed on several previous occasions.

46.   The work, which was postponed on Saturday, is designed to lighten the vessel so it can be towed to deeper waters.

47.   Vecchi, speaking jly have been played in Italy but was postponed on Sunday and then Monday because of an icy pitch.

48.   News of the rebuke came as NATO Secretary General Willy Claes postponed on health grounds visits to Athens and Ankara scheduled for this week.

49.   Rifkind had on Friday postponed his departure for a tour of the Middle East from Sunday to Monday because of a tight agenda.

50.   Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu postponed on Thursday any decision on redeploying Israeli troops from the West Bank city of Hebron as required under the Oslo peace accords.