51.   Defending the president, Premier Chang Chun-hsiung told reporters that there was no need for a recall.

52.   Lawyers defending former presidents Chun Doo-hwan and Roh Tae-woo against charges of treason resigned Monday, protesting what they called an unfair trial.

53.   Mrs. Yeltsin has increasingly appeared in public to defend the president since he was hospitalized for heart trouble in October, but she has said little about the elections.

54.   The Russian IOC member under investigation in the Salt Lake City bribery scandal defended IOC president Juan Antonio Samaranch in an interview published Saturday.

55.   Botero said that he had lied earlier in defending the president but decided to come clean after five months imprisonment in a military barracks north of Bogota.

56.   Vajpayee defended BJP president Advani, who was charged with corruption by the CBI Tuesday.

57.   Vajpayee defended BJP president Advani, who was charged with corruption by the CBI on Tuesday.

58.   Zuniga has emphatically told the press that the military does not defend the president, it defends the institution of the presidency.