51.   Throughout the summit, American spokesmen have freely acknowledged the atmosphere has been very tense at times.

52.   U.N. spokesmen finally acknowledged the incursion about two days after the reports first circulated.

53.   His future at the school was uncertain, an academy spokesman acknowledged Tuesday.

54.   However a spokesman for the foreign trade ministry acknowledged the embargo was costing Russia five billion dollars a year.

55.   A police recruitment spokesman acknowledged the link with increasing unemployment.

56.   A UN patrol spotted former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, an indicted war criminal, but failed to arrest him, UN and IFOR spokesmen acknowledged Wednesday.

57.   A US military spokesman acknowledged that some civilians could have died in the raid, but insisted that the night-long bombardment had been necessary.

58.   But the spokesman acknowledged that the Cyprus government in Nicosia has no plans to cancel the deal.

59.   But the State Department spokesman acknowledged that the UN deployment had been delayed by lack of equipment and urged other countries to provide what was needed.

60.   The spokesman acknowledged however that there were problems in some areas.