41.   Vodafone also withheld comment.

42.   White House officials indicated that, despite the hopes expressed earlier in the day, the president would withhold comment for the time being.

43.   Yasser Arafat, the Palestinian leader, and members of his self-rule Cabinet withheld public comment on Thursday until final election results are announced.

44.   Other banks have withheld comment until they saw the lawsuit.

45.   Other banks have withheld comment.

46.   President Kwasniewski withheld comment pending final results, and declined to say to whom he would offer first chance to form a government.

47.   Ashdown said he would withhold detailed comments until after he meets with Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic on Tuesday.

48.   Bank of Japan officials withheld comment pending a formal Cabinet decision.

49.   Beyond that, authorities withheld comment.

50.   Both sides said they had been ordered to withhold comment about the dismissal.