1.   Only belatedly last week did France, with its uneasy immigrant population, reverse its refusal to accept even small numbers of refugees.

2.   The IRA completed the jigsaw carefully choreographed by Mitchell with a statement reversing its refusal to consider disarming.

3.   Bosnian Serb leaders on Thursday reversed earlier refusals to cooperate with war crimes investigators and release prisoners of war.

4.   He called on Hun Sen to reverse his refusal to meet with him.

5.   However, last Friday, he reversed his refusal to negotiate with the Palestinians under fire, saying he was prepared to do so.