51.   Interior Secretary Gale Norton has rebuffed requests by Florida Gov. Jeb Bush to cancel a planned auction of oil and gas leases in the eastern Gulf of Mexico.

52.   Paris rebuffed the request, saying the Comoros islands should stick together.

53.   Salig said Aspen had no plans to make a similar application if the drug companies rebuffed its request.

54.   That request was rebuffed by some members, apparently prompting Qatar to pull out its troops from GCC military exercises in Kuwait earlier this month.

55.   The Clinton administration rebuffs European request for larger role in Mideast peacemaking.

56.   The generals rebuffed a request, however, by aides to Philippines President Fidel Ramos, who is also visiting Burma this week, to meet with Suu Kyi.

57.   Turkey rebuffs Iraqi request to prevent use of base by U.S. jets.

58.   Two of his former bodyguards told police they were asked by Saxena to obtain phoney travel documents but rebuffed his requests.

59.   When those requests were rebuffed, Dutch officials increased customs checks on all flights from Paramaribo, the Surinamese capital.

60.   While the Supreme Court rebuffed media requests for television access, the same-day release of tapes as well as transcripts on the Internet was a first.