41.   The contract allows for a three-year lease, with the option of extending it by another two years.

42.   The emergency package, which President Clinton extended by executive order, helped calm a financial panic.

43.   The European Union on Friday extended by three months its humanitarian aid flights for the benefit of refugees in a handful of African nations.

44.   The government extended by three months a cease-fire that expired Wednesday, to allow food to reach civilians caught in the war with rebels in the south.

45.   The German federation gave her a one-year ban, and the IAAF extended it by two years.

46.   The government has extended by three months its amnesty offer to Buddhist tribespeople fighting for autonomy in south Bangladesh, the Interior Ministry said Tuesday.

47.   The program, however, did not achieve its targets and last April, Jordan extended it by another three years.

48.   The Security Council on Friday extended by six months the mandate of the U.N. mission that monitors a shaky cease-fire in the former Soviet republic of Georgia.

49.   The Security Council voted Friday to extend by six months the U.N. mandate in eastern Slavonia, the last region in Croatia still held by the Serbs.

50.   The Security Council voted Friday to extend by six months the U.N. mandate in Eastern Slavonia, the last region in Croatia still under Serbian control.