41.   Administration officials refused to identify the most vulnerable embassies and declined to give details about the countermeasures that they planned to deter and detect terrorist acts.

42.   Administration officials so far have refused to make public the estimated costs of an invasion.

43.   Actually, the agency proposed two or three more, but after the embassy bombing, Pentagon officials refused to carry them out.

44.   Administration officials adamantly refused to describe talks over whether American drug agents would be permitted to carry sidearms in Mexico.

45.   Administration officials refuse to discuss the potential level of American financial support for a possible agreement between Israel and Syria, saying such questions are speculative and premature.

46.   Administration officials refused to say which of those specific provisions Clinton would endorse.

47.   Administration officials refused on Monday night to spell out the schedule for establishing relations.

48.   Administration officials refused to say whether the United States would seek to topple Saddam or destroy his army completely in any renewed war.

49.   After Denver officials refused, the association threw its support in the state Legislature behind a bill that would have pre-empted local gun control ordinances.

50.   After Ms. Dharmaraj did so U.N. officials refused to let any of the three other scheduled speakers take the floor.