81.   Sharon aides have denied that such a plan exists.

82.   Sharon aides denied that pullout was the result of U.S. pressure and said that the decision to withdraw had been made earlier.

83.   Yeltsin later said in a television interview that he had suffered a heart attack, something his aides earlier had denied.

84.   Yeltsin was to have met with Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar at the Kremlin, but the aides denied such a meeting was ever scheduled.

85.   His aides had denied the reports.

86.   An aide to Musharraf denied the idea for a referendum had come from the president, saying the politicians had raised it instead.

87.   At the time, a senior Aidid aide denied the report and last Sunday Aidid himself issued a personal denial in a radio interview.

88.   Bildt aides deny he is passing the buck on one of the most thorny issues, arguing instead that the problem should be shared.

89.   Mitterrand aides deny any link.