He told Parliament in a written statement last week that he was going to Greece for treatment of a stress-related heart ailment.

Consolidated's chairman, Rudolph Agnew, told shareholders in a statement that the sweetened offer was still an effort to buy the company "on the cheap."

"We used to have a sense of humour about this," he told Talksport, in a statement he has since been ordered to retract.

Yesterday afternoon, Ms. Nolan told the board of her veto in a brief statement that contained no explanation.

"Japan and the world absolutely will not tolerate a nuclear test," he told reporters, in a statement worded more sharply than the Bush administration's.

"He was kind of banged up, I just figured he got into a fight," she told police in a tape-recorded statement last week.

But Ms. Bennett, who pleaded not guilty, told the police in a five-page statement that she had nothing to do with his death.

Much of what Ms. Mentavlos related in an interview over the weekend, she told school officials last week in a lengthy statement.

But she told reporters in a brief statement on Saturday that "this entire experience has been a nightmare."

He told The Times in a statement: "The Bielskis weren't saints.