41.   Netanyahu is expected to defend his policies and reject blame for the stalemate.

42.   President Clinton, chairing an economic conference here, defended his policies Wednesday while conceding that times are still tough for many people.

43.   Prosecutors, including US Attorney Donald K. Stern, said they will review their practices, although most defended current policies as adequate.

44.   Still, one senior White House official acknowledged that in recent days he has had to defend the policy against prophets of doom within the Clinton administration itself.

45.   The agency defends the policy as a way to deter thousands of Haitians from taking to sea in unstable rafts and flooding South Florida, or dying en route.

46.   The central banker also defended Swiss policy by saying that the franc could always again be supported by uncertainties about European monetary union.

47.   The Clinton administration defended the policy.

48.   The Clinton administration has resolutely defended the policy, both in court and in public statements.

49.   The Clinton and Bush administrations had defended the policy, saying secrecy was essential to the peer review process by which doctors evaluate one another.

50.   The Israeli policy was vigorously defended Tuesday by Ephraim Sneh, the transportation minister and a former army commander in the West Bank.