51.   Gol said Israel had asked Spanish authorities not to permit the plane to take off.

52.   Goldstone was asking Yugoslav authorities to send both men to the tribunal for questioning.

53.   He asked Catholic authorities to pursue contacts with rebel leaders.

54.   Han said his letter asked Chinese authorities to investigate the fire and report to the U.N. Fourth World Conference on Women, being held in Beijing.

55.   He is expected to ask authorities to drop the currency-violation charges brought against him in May.

56.   He had asked Iraqi authorities to release the man so that he could be tried in Jordan but did not say if they had agreed to do so.

57.   His lawyer, Christine Martineau, asked authorities to free him.

58.   Human rights groups have asked authorities to take concrete steps to investigate the disappearances.

59.   In mid-October, nine companies asked financial authorities for permission to delay their issues.

60.   In The Hague, Netherlands, war crimes prosecutor Richard Goldstone asked Bosnian authorities to arrest and detain the officers, Gen. Djordje Djukic and Col. Aleksa Krsmanovic.