91.   Before that meeting, British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern had already offered key assurances to Trimble.

92.   Bush also offered personal assurances to bombing survivors and families of the dead.

93.   Chinese officials finally offered assurances during preparations for the U.S. visit by President Jiang Zemin in October.

94.   Christopher offered the assurance to Russia in his ninth and final speech to the North Atlantic Council.

95.   Despite heated emotions against the Australians, cricket board officials in Sri Lanka have offered their assurances that security for the players will be adequate.

96.   Guard Mohammed Hassan offered assurances that the tourists would be safe in his care.

97.   He also offered assurances that the United States did not have nuclear missiles targeted on Russia or any other nation.

98.   He offered assurances that the cost to the American taxpayer for expanding NATO would be modest.

99.   He said the main ethnic Albanian leader Ibrahim Rugova had offered similar assurances from the ethnic Albanian side.

100.   In Skopje, government officials said that NATO envoy Daniel Speckhard had offered assurances that NATO had started looking for arms caches in the Debelde area of Yugoslavia.