31.   This was a fairly direct reference to French oil interests in Iraq.

32.   Without making direct references, van Lieshout managed to bring repressed memories to the shiny surfaces of his plastic fantastic objects.

33.   Although not making any direct references to the IMF in his speech, Soeharto emphasized that following the designated reforms was the only way for the country to recover.

34.   Although the queen avoided any direct reference to Kashmir in a banquet speech Monday night, she said India and Pakistan should bury their historical hostilities.

35.   Bush and Mbeki opened their White House meeting Tuesday by outlining an agenda that lacked direct reference to HIV or AIDS.

36.   But it is a portrait cleansed of Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima and almost any direct reference to the front lines.

37.   But Lodal refrained from making any direct reference to the problem.

38.   But their communique made no direct reference to charges that the United States is undermining the WTO in a bitter dispute with Japan over auto imports.

39.   But the statement made no direct reference to the king, who is in Beijing for medical treatment.

40.   Castro made no direct reference to his health and Cuban officials have denied the rumors.