21.   White House Press Secretary Mike McCurry said Clinton had invited Gingrich and Dole to join him on the trip but neither leader accepted.

22.   Orange leaders reluctantly accepted the restrictions.

23.   A war of conservative chieftains broke out after some local leaders accepted Front support to hold on to power.

24.   ANC leaders eventually accepted the results of the vote, but recently themselves called for new elections in KwaZulu-Natal.

25.   As darkness fell, leaders accepted that there was little hope of controlling the blazes and reassessed their tactics.

26.   Aznar, who achieved a public relations coup when labor leader Antonio Gutierrez accepted an invitation to attend the convention.

27.   But diplomats and analysts are far from convinced that the Iraqi leader will accept the tightly controlled offer.

28.   But the sub-Saharan leaders also should accept responsibility for their own mistakes, he said.

29.   But the fact that the leaders have accepted his argument goes to show that they have now realised the wisdom of his proposal.

30.   But union leaders later accepted a revised management offer to reduce the work week by next August.