The allegations concerning birth conrol pills and Bibles were insistently denied by the center's managers and by the widows themselves.

Of the three senators, only Mr. Daschle has insistently denied any plans to run, at least not now.

While the Afghans have insistently denied the presence of American combat forces and the American troops have tried to hide from sight, their clandestine presence was betrayed by a tell-tail trail of piles of plastic Poland Spring mineral water bottles in the mountains.

Mr. Draper believes "there was little difference between Bush's support of 'arms for hostages' " and the President's; but Mr. Bush has insistently denied both the knowledge and the support, and the public appears to have accepted his denials.

In naming one of the groups, Ummah Tameer-e-Nau, Mr. Bush said it had provided information on nuclear weapons technology to Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda terrorist group, a charge Pakistan has insistently denied since the issue first arose in October.

With President Sarney providing little leadership in the current crisis, the vacuum of power has been filled by rumors that the Government might decide to impose new freezes on wages and prices, although the possibility has been insistently denied by Mr. Nobrega.

Among the secrets he took with him was confirmation of a huge biological weapons program that Iraq had insistently denied, with Al Dawrah as one of the principal production plants.

A problem for any Iraqi official denying the existence of new weapons programs is that all such programs were also insistently denied by Iraq during the early stages of the weapons inspections after 1991, and acknowledged only after United Nations research and Iraqi defectors had led inspectors to the sites.