1.   Armenia claimed that the reports were exaggerated to divert attention from large-scale Azeri attacks.

2.   Airline officials said the reports were exaggerated.

3.   Officials now say that early reports were exaggerated and that witnesses who painted the most dramatic pictures backed away from their statements when interviewed by detectives.

4.   Other documents greatly exaggerated reports of the deaths of a commando team that was code-named Scorpion.

5.   The police accuse human rights groups and foreign journalists of wildly exaggerating reports of violence.

6.   A. Gopalakrishnan, chief of the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board, said the newspaper report was exaggerated.

7.   But Engkos Kosim, a spokesman of the Labor Department in West Java, said that report was exaggerated.

8.   But both Pudie and Tom Ipaye, the agent on board who chartered the ship, said in interviews Tuesday night that the reports were exaggerated.

9.   But both Pudie and Tom Ipaye, the agent on board who chartered the ship, said Tuesday night that the reports were exaggerated.

10.   But Netanyahu adviser David Bar-Illan said the report was exaggerated but confirmed that settlement plans have been approved in recent days.