31.   Moreover, officials here see the presidential visit as helpful even in their efforts to persuade businesses from other countries to invest in South Africa.

32.   Others had anticipated the visit as a much needed antidote for the negative news about dissent among American Catholics and reports of sexual abuse committed by priests.

33.   Probation officers and members of Nassau police check the van of a parolee during a surprise visit as part of Operation Night Watch last year.

34.   Realistically, however, South Korean officials regard the forthcoming Koizumi visit as just the first step in a long process of reconciliation.

35.   She said some exiles see the visit as a political opportunity to visit the country to show support for dissidents here.

36.   Some, like Amazon, pay a percentage of sales generated from the visit as a commission.

37.   Some Palestinians seized on the visit as evidence that they were approaching statehood, if they had not already arrived.

38.   The author is William James Wells, whose little sisters Aggie and Jewell were my playmates when I went back there to visit as a child.

39.   The Massachusetets Democrat originally conceived the visit as an opportunity for New England executives interested in future business opportunities in Cuba.

40.   Though Cuban President Fidel Castro will meet with the pope Thursday evening, Cuban officials have been careful to portray the visit as strictly religious.