51.   Failure to reach agreement on comprehensive reform, US officials say, jeopardizes the credibility of the fledgling organization.

52.   The premier also criticized leaders of the powerful farming lobby, which represents the huge collective farms and food-processing plants, for slowing down comprehensive agricultural reforms.

53.   Major said that the time was ripe for comprehensive reform of the international financial institutions created after World War II.

54.   Pakistan will soon introduce comprehensive reforms to revamp its banking system troubled by bad loans estimated at billions of dollars, the governor of the central bank said Monday.

55.   Republican leaders, meanwhile, promised to undertake a comprehensive reform of the tax system as part of their effort to balance the federal budget.