41.   Russia acknowledges that Iran has asked for long-range missile technology, but says all efforts have been rebuffed.

42.   The campaign was undertaken after Israelis and other Jews claimed that the Swiss banks had rebuffed their efforts to reclaim the money for decades.

43.   The United States and its supporters on Monday rebuffed efforts by the European Union to revive international talks on combating global warming.

44.   The United States and its European allies have warned Milosevic that he risks stiffer economic sanctions by rebuffing efforts to resolve the crisis in Kosovo.

45.   A high-tech incinerator in Utah began destroying the US chemical weapons arsenal Thursday as courts and regulatory authorities rebuffed efforts by environmental groups to stop it.

46.   And in the Senate, moderate Republicans rebuffed efforts to focus the Senate investigation of the campaign finance scandal only on the White House.

47.   But Pakistan, like India, again rebuffed efforts to make it holster its fledgling nuclear arms program.

48.   But the Taliban rebuffed his efforts, dismissing him as a traitor.