51.   During that five-day speechmaking marathon, diplomats in U.N. basement conference rooms haggled over the final documents.

52.   Fire engulfed a basement room of the National Bank of Ukraine on Thursday, destroying some documents but causing no serious damage, officials said.

53.   Galiano works at an enormous, antique rolltop desk in a suitably cluttered basement room.

54.   Guards then began inspecting all the mail, discovering the second letter bomb late Monday afternoon in the basement mail room.

55.   He kept them in a basement room at his San Francisco home that became a shrine to the team.

56.   Henry Galiano walks through the maze of basement rooms under his shop, waving offhandedly at the human skeletons, fist-sized insects and desiccated lizards.

57.   Historians say Bolshevik revolutionary guards lined up and shot the czar, his wife, Alexandra, their five children and several servants in the small basement room.

58.   In a basement conference room, meanwhile, other U.N. officials looked not over the horizon, but at the here and now.

59.   In addition, several basement rooms in the adjoining Dirksen Senate Office Building have been closed until definitive test results are available.

60.   Later, the nerve gas ingredients were found in a basement room that had been sealed with concrete, news reports said.