41.   The United Nations special reporter on human rights for the former Yugoslavia has rejected an appeal by the U.N. Commission on Human Rights to withdraw his resignation.

42.   Their strategy collapsed when more than two dozen umps either failed to resign or quickly withdrew their resignations.

43.   Top army general withdraws his resignation.

44.   Ulivieri offered and then withdrew his resignation.

45.   A split in the Bosnian government appeared to be mended, or at least patched over, Thursday as Bosnian Prime Minister Haris Silajdzic withdrew his resignation.

46.   Bosnian Prime Minister Haris Silajdzic withdrew his resignation Thursday at the request of President Alija Izetbegovic, an aide to Silajdzic said.

47.   But he withdrew his resignation the same day after the intervention of the emir, Sheikh Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah.

48.   But senior party officials had been pursuading him to withdraw the resignation.

49.   The SDA on Saturday gave the prime minister four days to withdraw his resignation.

50.   The president of the Palestinian legislative council, Ahmed Korei, withdrew his resignation Wednesday after reaching a compromise with President Yasser Arafat, a council source said.