61.   But Butler and Annan brushed aside suggestions he should resign and disputed the reports in the Boston Globe and Washington Post.

62.   But a Taiwan Defense Ministry spokesman, speaking on customary condition of anonymity, disputed the report.

63.   But another agency disputed the report and top officials could not confirm it.

64.   But another agency disputed the report, and top officials could not confirm it.

65.   But an Israeli army spokesman in Jerusalem disputed the report.

66.   But he disputed widespread reports that opposition to them -- especially by indigent people -- recently caused the governing Congress Party to lose three state elections.

67.   Canadian divers from the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Haiti disputed initial reports that overcrowding caused the Pride of Gonave to capsize.

68.   Camdessus later disputed the report, but the fact remains that such reports are let through.

69.   Defense attorney Roy Kahn conceded that drug dealers had identified Gonzales as the recipient of drug profits but disputed reports that his client supplied cocaine.

70.   Elections Director Gerhard Totemeyer said all ballots were accounted for, and also disputed the reports of unsealed boxes.