51.   Foley was one of six freshmen who joined Gingrich, Armey and other senior Republican leaders at a news conference Wednesday to announce the deal.

52.   For most of the game, the Spartans did not appear to miss Mateen Cleaves, their senior leader and perhaps the best point guard in the nation.

53.   For weeks now, senior party leaders have been bickering over whether Biedenkopf insulted Kohl by inviting him to Dresden, but not inviting him to speak.

54.   Former President Bill Clinton and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., attended as did Cabinet officers, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and senior military leaders.

55.   Free speech, even criticism to senior leaders, is tolerated as long as it is private.

56.   Gallagher counted on the deep concerns that some senior Republican Party leaders had that McCollum was too conservative to win a statewide race.

57.   Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostum, a longtime Uzbek warlord, said Thursday that he had secured the agreement of senior Taliban leaders in Kunduz after two days of talks.

58.   He did not say, however, where they had been captured or whether any senior leaders were among them.

59.   He is certain to be feted by senior Chinese leaders.

60.   He said that the senior Chechen leader, Gen. Dzhokar M. Dudayev, and his top commander, Aslan Maskhadov, approved the plan to take hostages in Budyonnovsk.