41.   Okinawan committee rejects government land request.

42.   Raids were called off soon after at Dutch government request because the Serbs threatened to kill Dutch peacekeepers being held hostage.

43.   Private schools, which had closed in a show of solidarity with the public schools, reopened in response to the government request.

44.   Provincial court Judge Ross Archibald denied a government request that Regan surrender his passport and be forced to remain in Nova Scotia.

45.   Share prices on the London Stock Exchange dropped on Thursday, following surprise at a government request for an antitrust inquiry into takeover bids by National Power and PowerGen.

46.   The agreement marks the first time the central bank has bowed to a government request for a rate cut since it began pushing rates up a year ago.

47.   That is a sensitive issue, since the Saudis had refused U.S. government requests to interview the Riyadh bombers before they were executed.

48.   The government request sought to prove that Pinochet would face justice at home if he is freed in Britain.

49.   The government request for help comes amid fears that the pervasive violence that claimed a half-million lives in neighboring Rwanda two years ago could consume Burundi.

50.   The National Labor Court was to meet Wednesday to consider a government request that it issue a back-to-work order to the strikers.