41.   President Clinton on Thursday warned Yasser Arafat against declaring Palestinian statehood without an agreement on the politically explosive issue with Israel.

42.   Profiling is an explosive issue in the United States, but here it is a keystone of the security system, at the airports and on the streets.

43.   Rep. Henry Hyde, R-Ill., who is platform committee chairman, is still hoping to defuse the explosive issue.

44.   Rep. Mark Foley, R-Fla., was upset when freshmen were excluded from a special task force reviewing immigration policies -- an explosive issue in his state.

45.   Russia may have no choice but to create a professional army because the draft will become an increasingly explosive issue.

46.   Sexual harassment is a particularly explosive issue in Korea, which has seen its women sexually mistreated by a series of foreign invaders.

47.   Some Israelis were content to linger in the interim peace period, during which tensions were low and the explosive final issues were left unresolved.

48.   That means that McCain, while succeeding in getting out a tobacco bill, has kicked the explosive issue of liability protection to the next step in the Congress.

49.   That abstract legal question hides an explosive issue.

50.   The budget bill will also deal with such politically explosive issues as Medicare, Medicaid and tax cuts, and President Clinton has threatened to veto it.