41.   Ota testified before the Supreme Court on Wednesday, appealing a separate lower court ruling ordering him to force a landowner to renew his lease.

42.   Ota, a longtime critic of the U.S. bases, is being sued by the central government for refusing to force local landowners to renew leases to the Americans.

43.   Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto sued the governor of Okinawa on Friday for refusing to force landowners on the southern island to renew their leases with the U.S. military.

44.   A new wave of anger has burst forth over central government plans to force reluctant landowners to renew leases for base land.

45.   Airlines will not repair planes that reach retirement age, will not renew leases and will try to lease or sell planes to foreign companies, the report said.

46.   But last month, the PLO city government refused to renew her lease and cut off the water that she needs to grow her next crop of papaya.

47.   But renewing the leases against the will of the owners is a lengthy process Ota has delayed for months.

48.   But they disagreed on whether the freeze should be extended to those who renewed their leases in the past year.

49.   Fiji nationalists are angry at attempts by Chaudhry to persuade Fijian landowners to renew expiring leases on farm land held by thousands of ethnic Indian tenants.

50.   Following the orders signed by the prime minister in place of Ota, the legal process to renew the leases is expected to take another two weeks.