51.   Yeltsin was preparing a response, the Kremlin said Tuesday.

52.   He refused to give further details, but said the PLO chief was preparing a response.

53.   Foreign Minister David Levy notably charged that Arafat was colluding with radicals of the Islamic Resistance Group HAMAS, in preparing a response to the settlement plans.

54.   The Thai Foreign Ministry has been informed and is preparing a response to the marketing blunder, sources said.

55.   Powell told Ivanov generally of the decision to give the Russians time to prepare a response, the official said.

56.   The decision comes as Sinn Fein, the political wing of the IRA, prepares its response in the coming weeks to the Anglo-Irish peace declaration.

57.   The Foreign Ministry said it had been officially informed of the move and was preparing a response.