He said representatives of the rebel group in London "assured us that they continue to plan for a broadly based provisional government leading to a Democratic constitution for Ethiopia."

Mr. Jackson said representatives of the Yugoslav Government had assured him that the group would be allowed to visit the three soldiers, who were captured along the Kosovo-Macedonia border on March 31.

He added that Polish representatives had assured him that "it was not their intention to deprive people of jobs and there was a willingness to discuss cases that came to our attention."

Former Arab residents of al-Haram testified that before the war, representatives of the Jewish towns assured them they were safe.

The Russian representative, Yuli M. Vorontsov, assured the envoys from the United States, Britain, France and Spain that the Serbian forces intended to comply with NATO's terms.

The plane was already there waiting and a representative from the airline assured us, against the evidence of all our previous experience, that there would be no problems, we could go straight to the plane.

"It's happening," a representative from Atlas assured me.

Talese admitted that she had done nothing to check the book's veracity, despite the fact that her representatives had assured Winfrey's staff that the book was indeed non-fiction and described it as "brutally honest" in a press release.

A representative of International Paper assured the supervisory board of Zanders, which employs about 4,000 workers, that it would win new markets in the United States.

Finnish representatives assured Yartsev that Finland was committed to a policy of neutrality and that the country would resist any armed incursion.