11.   Some guerrilla groups immediately dismissed the offer.

12.   The group dismissed four senior professional managers, including Hyundai Corp. Chairman Lee Choon Rim, from their posts.

13.   The study, done by mission organizations themselves, provides powerful evidence of a problem many evangelical groups have dismissed.

14.   Cardinal Basil Hume, who is leader of Catholics in England and Wales, supported Winning while pro-abortion groups dismissed the offer as a bribe.

15.   Health groups are dismissing the code in advance as a public-relations gesture by the tobacco companies trying to head off a new federal ban on smoking ads.

16.   Human rights groups have dismissed the changes as cosmetic.

17.   Human rights groups have dismissed the changes on counterrevolution as cosmetic.

18.   Pro-abortions groups dismissed the offer as an empty gesture.

19.   Human rights groups have dismissed the gesture, saying the government was simply making public names previously compiled by the rights groups.

20.   International rights groups have also dismissed the Palestinian massacre accusations, although they say Israel committed serious rights violations in the battle.