41.   Robin Cook, the British foreign secretary, said the two sides had to compromise to avoid further bloodshed.

42.   Romano Prodi, president of the European Commission, and the British foreign secretary, Robin Cook, also attended.

43.   Robin Cook, the leader of the House and former foreign secretary, said the negative reactions were misguided and premature.

44.   State Department officials and the British foreign secretary, Jack Straw, say Karzai has a strong case.

45.   The allies acted after the British foreign secretary, Robin Cook, presented an international ultimatum to Milosevic and the Kosovo Albanian authorities.

46.   The British foreign secretary, Selwyn Lloyd, sent his ambassador in Washington to see the director of central intelligence, Allen Dulles, about the plan.

47.   The British foreign secretary, Douglas Hurd, issued the same warning to Congress the previous week.

48.   The British foreign secretary, Douglas Hurd, reiterated Saturday that Britain opposes lifting the arms embargo on Bosnia, albeit acknowledging that this could become unavoidable.

49.   The British foreign secretary, Robin Cook, and the French foreign minister, Hubert Vedrine, have not ruled it out.

50.   The chosen include a free-market ideologue as treasury secretary and a controversial leftist intellectual as foreign secretary.