31.   A strongly worded statement issued by the U.S. Embassy Monday appeared to suggest that the meeting, which took place at the British Embassy, might have been bugged.

32.   After two days of bellicose threats, the Iraqi Parliament on Sunday adopted a vaguely worded statement on the latest spat with the United Nations.

33.   Arthur sent a strongly worded statement to his counterpart in Trinidad, Prime Minister Basdeo Panday on Thursday and later made the statement public.

34.   Baker read a carefully worded statement, speaking deliberately, before answering questions.

35.   At U.N. headquarters in New York, the Security Council issued a toughly worded statement Friday calling for an end to the fighting.

36.   Clinton issued a toughly worded statement on the vote Tuesday night and then repeated his criticism before cameras today in the Rose Garden.

37.   Days of delicate negotiations between the two sides worked out a carefully worded U.S. statement that ended the stand-off.

38.   His request that the committee wait until after the British Masters the week before the Ryder Cup to evaluate his condition was rejected Friday in a tersely worded statement.

39.   In a strongly worded statement Saturday, a Russian deputy foreign minister told the Baltic News Service that Russia would never allow NATO to expand up to its borders.

40.   In a carefully worded statement released just before he left the country late Tuesday, Abdelfattah Amor chastised the Vietnamese government for the restrictions.