51.   CHINA BANS IMPORT OF FRENCH WINE In a move that baffles French officials and businessmen, Chinese customs authorities have suspended the import of all wine from France.

52.   Chirac has been busy consulting with German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and talked with British Prime Minister Tony Blair by telephone, French officials said.

53.   Cohen then plans to stop in Paris for meetings with French military officials before returning to the United States.

54.   Commission officials said they were under pressure from French officials to approve state aid to French companies hit by the devaluation of currencies such as the lira.

55.   Donald Carty, the chief executive of American Airlines, said that airline employees brought Reid to the attention of French officials, who cleared him for the flight.

56.   European Commission and French officials said a key Archer Daniels Midland Co. export should be banned or heavily taxed because it contains ingredients prohibited by a trade agreement.

57.   Earlier this month, French officials had to revise economic growth forecasts for this year downward.

58.   Earlier Tuesday, French officials confirmed that foot-and-mouth disease was found among cattle at a dairy farm in Laval, in northwestern France.

59.   European Union and French officials said a key Archer Daniels Midland Co. export should be banned or heavily taxed because it contains ingredients prohibited by a trade agreement.

60.   European countries would probably also pull their troops out at the same time the United States did, French officials said.