51.   Indurain, who now speaks only in Spanish when questioned about ETA as he was misquoted once when he replied in French, dismissed the threats.

52.   American Airlines and British Airways dismissed a threat Monday by the European Union of a legal challenge to Britain if it approved a marketing alliance between the two carriers.

53.   Bhutto, replying to a hard-hitting speech by former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, dismissed any threat to her government from the opposition drive to oust her.

54.   But he dismissed UNITA threats to pull out of the peace deal if the government offensive continued.

55.   Costa Rica has dismissed threats of terrorist actions made by the kidnappers of two European women if their ransom demands, including one million dollars, are not met.

56.   Ex-Moslem rebel leader Nur Misuari on Friday dismissed threats by a Christian vigilante group to sabotage a recently signed peace agreement in the southern Philippines.

57.   The report dismissed the threat of a conflict with Egypt in the short term but not in the long term.

58.   The president on Saturday dismissed threats by electricity workers and said that a plan to privatise NEPA next year was irrevocable.

59.   The Taliban roundly dismissed the threat posed by a military alliance between the government it ousted from here two weeks ago and their main northern rival.

60.   The Taliban militia on Saturday roundly dismissed the threat posed by a military alliance between the government it ousted from here two weeks ago and their main northern rival.