51.   The IMF and World Bank spokespeople defend their policies as necessary for reforming the country.

52.   The U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service defends its policy of detaining those who violate or overstay their visas, saying the intent is to prevent further terrorist attacks.

53.   US officials defended the policy in recent interviews, but Caribbean officials and some US legal authorities decried it as hypocrisy.

54.   We should not have to defend our rights to be parents, but Wilson should have to defend a policy that has no rational basis.

55.   While defending church policy, the cardinal also sounded a conciliatory note and encouraged the man to contact him personally.

56.   Yet it is Ashcroft who has taken by far the most heat, and who has stepped forward most often to defend the policy.

57.   Pastrana defended his policy of ceding land to guerrillas as an incentive to make peace.

58.   A White House official, speaking privately, said Clinton is expected to defend his policies toward Cuba, Iraq, the Middle East peace process and Africa.

59.   American Black Muslim leader Louis Farrakhan also addressed the Tehran rally, heaping lavish praise on the revolution and its leaders and defended the policies of the Islamic republic.

60.   And with her husband reviewing federal affirmative action programs, the first lady strongly defended preference policies for women.