41.   President Bill Clinton and Chinese President Jiang Zemin held a long-awaited meeting to ease tensions over trade, Taiwan and human rights.

42.   Q Just to follow up, Mike, does the President plan to say or do anything tomorrow to try to defuse the very tensions over this question?

43.   President Bill Clinton and Chinese President Jiang Zemin held a long-awaited meeting that both sides hope will ease tensions over trade, Taiwan and human rights.

44.   Recent tensions over a couple of touchy issues, however, are a sign of a growing divide.

45.   Rumsfeld also may visit several Persian Gulf states before or after he goes to India and Pakistan to discuss tensions over Kashmir.

46.   School officials and representatives of the teachers union met Wednesday with a mediator as tension over their contract dispute widened to other unions with a stake in the outcome.

47.   Senate Democrats may block votes Thursday on two Bush administration legal nominees in a public display of mounting partisan and ideological tensions over expected judicial appointments.

48.   Similar tensions over the past decade have erupted into open war in Bosnia, Croatia and Kosovo.

49.   Some crew members said there had been what the entertainment industry would call creative tension over how far to push the envelope.

50.   Still, the disagreement pointed to the underlying tensions over the province.