51.   The statement contradicted government claims that fighting in the mostly Muslim region is subsiding.

52.   The remarks contradicted earlier claims by Sassou-Nguesso that Lissouba was trying to spark clashes so he would have an excuse to delay the voting and retain power.

53.   The statement appeared to contradict government claims that the garrison had been captured.

54.   The U.S. evidence contradicted Iraqi claims that it had never loaded the gas into warheads.

55.   Video contradicts Israeli claims on U.N. attack.

56.   But journalists and his own General Vladimiro Lopez Trigoso as recently as Wednesday have contradicted the claim.

57.   But Londoners emerging from the cinemas contradicted these claims.

58.   Chan had earlier resisted asking for clemency because he felt it would have contradicted his claims of innocence, Gwee said.

59.   Official navy records contradict claims by an immigrant that a woman who had just given birth was bleeding for a month.