31.   A day earlier, Bankole angered government officials by saying that former dictator Mathieu Kerekou defeated incumbent President Nicephore Soglo at the polls.

32.   Angering Colombian officials, Germany on Tuesday defended a German man accused of brokering a ransom payment and trying to smuggle a kidnap victim out of Colombia.

33.   Angering Colombian officials, Germany on Tuesday defended a German man accused of ransom-brokering and trying to smuggle a kidnap victim out of Colombia.

34.   Articles that angered officials included pieces on human rights abuses in state prisons, mass arrests and accusations of state corruption.

35.   Babitsky, a Radio Liberty correspondent, has angered Russian officials with his consistent criticism of the Chechnya war.

36.   Babitsky has angered Russian officials with his consistent criticism of the Chechnya war.

37.   But the Russian Foreign Ministry angered Iraqi officials by urging them to allow U.N. weapons inspectors back in to the country in exchange for lifting the sanctions.

38.   But the attack on observers who serve as liaison officers between the peacekeeping force and the local community angered officials.

39.   Calderon already has angered federal officials with plans to offer a local referendum that includes the choice of the Navy leaving Vieques immediately.

40.   Canadian officials were further angered by a U.S. decision to allow Washington fishermen to resume fishing Saturday for sockeye salmon at the Fraser River near Vancouver.