81.   French officials, in particular, feel humiliated that the Swiss, of all people, have stolen a march on them.

82.   French officials, who had not consulted with their European allies about resuming the tests, canceled diplomatic meetings in anger.

83.   French President Jacques Chirac telephoned Yeltsin on Monday and urged him to keep up the political pressure on Yugoslavia, French officials said.

84.   French officials also say they can never allow the nuclear research program in Algeria to come under the control of an Islamic state.

85.   French officials are now investigating the episode.

86.   French officials are speaking of mid-July rather than later this month.

87.   French officials argue that they have little choice.

88.   French officials began investigating the reports from Dubai in early September, just before the attacks in the United States.

89.   French officials confirmed the authenticity of the document, and said it had been submitted to the French and German parliaments for discussion.

90.   French officials emphatically insisted on Tuesday that their counterparts in Washington were mistaken, and that France had not ordered a clandestine raid on the Bosnian Serbs.