1.   Anesta Corp. received a letter from the Food and Drug Administration saying the agency will not approve its pain lozenge, the company said today.

2.   A Justice Department spokesman said the agency, as a matter of policy, would not confirm or deny anything potentially related to an investigation.

3.   A U.S. Customs Service official in Del Rio said the agency and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service were investigating the matter.

4.   Alan R. Kooney, the legislative budget officer, said the agency stood by its prediction.

5.   But its debut will be delayed for a year to conduct additional ground tests, the agency said.

6.   But most planes, the agency said, already meet the new rule.

7.   But Routh said her agency, which oversees nursing home inspections, is seeing more problems and hearing more complaints.

8.   But McCray said welfare agencies and courts in and out of Arizona withheld new referrals until a decision was made on a permanent license.

9.   Carrizoza said police agencies all over the state and in Mexico also have been notified to be on the lookout for the car.

10.   Current emergency food supplies inside Afghanistan are only sufficient to last three weeks, the agency said.