51.   Moscow acknowledges that Iran has tried to obtain missile know-how, but said all such attempts had been thwarted.

52.   More than six years later, Vakrinos is suspected of killing a woman passenger in his taxi after she thwarted his attempts to rape her.

53.   Police remove the laces of detainees shoes to thwart suicide attempts.

54.   Rene Molina, Inspector General of the Courts, said a judicial reform commission has repeatedly thwarted his attempts to remove corrupt or negligent judges.

55.   Russian border guards thwarted two attempts by Tajik rebels to cross into their homeland from bases in neighboring Afghanistan, a news agency reported Thursday.

56.   Prison officers thwarted both attempts, which were made as Bryant sat in a suicide proof cell in the prison hospital.

57.   Republicans have thwarted Democratic attempts to expand federal hate crimes protection for homosexuals through a defense bill, greatly reducing its chances of passing Congress this year.

58.   Security forces thwarted two attempts by armed tribesmen to kidnap French tourists in Yemen last week, a weekly newspaper reported Monday.

59.   Russia has said that it thwarted Iranian attempts to acquire weapons technology, and Iran says it has no intention of developing weapons of mass destruction.

60.   Russia says it has thwarted such attempts, and the two sides remain at odds on the issue.