1.   Vlazny recalled that Brom insisted that the victim had to retract his allegations formally before the Duluth diocese would agree to participate in paying half of the settlement money.

2.   Abu el-Ulla, wearing a red prison uniform, told The Associated Press Thursday that he had retracted the allegation against el-Qut.

3.   Abu el-Ulla told The Associated Press Thursday that he had retracted the allegation against el-Qut.

4.   Another police intelligence officer, Abdul Aziz Hussin, demonstrated how he had forced two key witnesses to retract their allegations of sexual misconduct against Anwar.

5.   And Le Gougne later retracted her allegations, while Didier repeatedly denied them.

6.   Before the trial recessed, assistant police commissioner Mazlan Mohamed Din said he was wrong in forcing two key witnesses to retract allegations of sexual misconduct against Anwar.

7.   Both later retracted their allegations, in what prosecutors claim was a deliberate cover-up attempt by Anwar while he was still in power as deputy prime minister.

8.   Both Ummi and Azizan retracted their allegations.

9.   Defense attorneys denounced the tactic of introducing and then retracting the allegations as an outrageous attempt to manipulate public opinion.

10.   Despite international observers pronouncing the polls free and fair, the opposition refuses to retract allegations the elections were marred by massive fraud perpetrated by the CPP.