51.   In a statement, the foundation instead called on Clinton to endorse proposed legislation to tighten the embargo against Cuba.

52.   Still, Ron Thornburgh, president of the National Association of Secretaries of State, said he would recommend that his group endorse the legislation.

53.   The Majlis has no legal weight without the hard-line controlled Guardian Council, which must endorse all legislation.

54.   The legislation has been endorsed by the American Heart Association and the American Red Cross.

55.   The legislation was endorsed by the Cuban-American National Foundation, the largest and most influential of the anti-communist Cuban exile groups.

56.   The memo came a week before Bush announced he would not endorse legislation regulating carbon dioxide, reversing a position he had taken during his presidential campaign.

57.   The Senate Intelligence Committee reportedly has endorsed legislation that would make disclosing classified information to the news media a felony punishable by up to three years in prison.

58.   Twenty-one state attorneys general endorsed the legislation as a way to end that access.

59.   Drug manufacturer Hoffmann-LaRoche has meanwhile endorsed legislation imposing longer prison sentences for the use of illegal drugs in the commission of felonies.

60.   US President George W. Bush Wednesday endorsed legislation to make human cloning illegal in the United States.