41.   Maintaining their silence on strategy OPEC ministers said Tuesday they were optimistic about pushing oil prices off their recent depressed levels.

42.   Members of paramilitary groups often maintain disciplined silence when questioned.

43.   Milosevic maintained his silence on the elections.

44.   Milosevic maintained his silence on the OSCE report.

45.   On Wednesday, members of the committee were maintaining their silence.

46.   Palestinian school children burned American flags and stoned Israeli soldiers on Thursday to protest the U.S. airstrikes against Iraq, but the Palestinian Authority maintained official silence.

47.   Russian authorities maintained silence Tuesday after the announcement that an American who allegedly spied for Russia had been arrested in the United States.

48.   The aircraft, which was picked up by military air traffic control radar at the Kuantan airport, was believed to have maintained radio silence.

49.   The American military maintained official silence Monday, including to the Red Cross, about the reported detention of nine Iranians at the U.S. Army-run stockade here.

50.   The former Enron chairman, appearing under subpoena, was maintaining his silence and declining to answer questions at the hearing before the Senate Commerce Committee.