41.   Fischler has said Britain must decide what new safeguards to order before the EU can decide on compensation payments.

42.   Germany on Friday confirmed an agreement with the United States to make compensation payments to Americans imprisoned in Nazi concentration camps who have not received restitution.

43.   Government compensation payments were expected to cover any differential.

44.   If the ruling stands, the government will discuss how to split the compensation payment with U.S. military.

45.   It said compensation payments to dispossessed Aborigines would cripple taxpayers and hinder mining development.

46.   Later Thursday, French Prime Minister Lionel Jospin urged Germany to negotiate with France to agree upon appropriate compensation payments.

47.   Many were hoping a positive result would open the way to big compensation payments.

48.   News reports said Boliden was also discussing compensation payments for farmers and others affected with government officials.

49.   Nazi victims around Belarus began to receive compensation payments Wednesday for slave labor during World War II from a German fund.

50.   No compensation payments were made.