41.   But President Boris Yeltsin continues to insist that the government will not permit the ruble to fall.

42.   But he went on national radio as the deadline neared, and said the government will permit Karno to join if Malaysia allows it.

43.   Chinese are passionate fans of professional sports, despite the fact that the government permitted its first professional leagues, for soccer, only two years ago.

44.   He also accused opponents of planning assassinations, which he said the government would not permit.

45.   He said his government is permitting human rights monitors, aid officials and journalists into the captured territory.

46.   However, the French, Italian and Dutch governments have permitted their warplanes to drop weapons against Taliban and al-Qaida targets inside Afghanistan.

47.   His government has permitted little dissent and cracked down hard on an insurgency in eastern Libya by Muslim militants opposed to his brand of socialism and Islam.

48.   However, the government has permitted three human rights observers from the European Union to be based in Chechnya beginning this week.

49.   In a compromise, Rabin said the government will permit construction of a smaller subdivision on a different hill adjacent to the settlement.

50.   In other signs of a softening Iranian attitude, the Tehran government has permitted Iranian enterprises to bring some Israeli agricultural experts to the country, the radio said.