61.   Aides have insisted the president merely lost his voice after giving too many interviews.

62.   Aides insist that even when Yeltsin is not up to meeting people, he does paperwork, speaks on the telephone and signs presidential decrees.

63.   Aides have insisted the president merely lost his voice giving too many interviews.

64.   Aides insist that will be the last Bush will say about the matter.

65.   Aides insisted the leaders barely discussed the ABM dispute in private.

66.   Aides insist he is just suffering from a cold.

67.   Aides insisted he would return, but diplomatic sources in the capital said they expected Mobutu to head eventually into exile, possibly in France or Morocco.

68.   Aides insist the president is not ill, but exhausted after the election campaign.

69.   Bush cringed when an aide insisted that he greet Abdullah in a business suit.

70.   Despite claims from some conservative critics, White House aides insisted the president had not broken a campaign pledge.