51. Yeltsin was preparing a response, the Kremlin said Tuesday. 52. He refused to give further details, but said the PLO chief was preparing a response. 53. Foreign Minister David Levy notably charged that Arafat was colluding with radicals of the Islamic Resistance Group HAMAS, in preparing a response to the settlement plans. 54. The Thai Foreign Ministry has been informed and is preparing a response to the marketing blunder, sources said. 55. Powell told Ivanov generally of the decision to give the Russians time to prepare a response, the official said. 56. The decision comes as Sinn Fein, the political wing of the IRA, prepares its response in the coming weeks to the Anglo-Irish peace declaration. 57. The Foreign Ministry said it had been officially informed of the move and was preparing a response. |