51.   Nearby, someone bangs on the bathroom door in a vain attempt to vacate a passenger who found room to sit in the stall.

52.   Residents had protested, collected signatures and pulled political stings in a vain attempt to stop the home from being plunked into their sylvan idyll.

53.   The lev plunged, and already depleted foreign currency reserves vanished in a vain attempt to halt its decline.

54.   The protesters staged a sit-down in one of the vineyards in a vain attempt to prevent surveyors from marking off the path of the road.

55.   The Taliban claimed Haq had used a satellite telephone to call in attacks by U.S. aircraft in a vain attempt to stave off capture, the news agency said.

56.   The Taliban claimed Haq had used a satellite telephone to call in attacks by U.S. aircraft in a vain attempt to stave off capture.

57.   Then he played a thin stream of water from a garden hose on his barn and house, in a vain attempt to douse the flames.

58.   Trading was twice halted by a circuit-breaker in a vain attempt to stop the bleeding.

59.   Zeman won the elections, held two years early in a vain attempt to overcome political deadlock.

60.   Four western tourists abducted by Moslem rebels while trekking in the Himalayan state of Kashmir entered their ninth month of captivity Tuesday amid vain attempts to secure their release.