MICHAEL Heseltine last night defied calls for his resignation after his pits closure plans turned into a fiasco.

Prime Minister Branko Mikulic today defied calls for his resignation made by Yugoslavia's two most Westernized republics.

On a day when Mr. Suharto defied calls to step down immediately, the students are treating his Government with undisguised contempt.

In Milwaukee, Wisconsin's biggest city, teachers defied calls from school administrators and their unions to stay on the job.

The Government, headed by Lieut. Gen. Henri Namphy, is defying calls for its resignation.

The contract, if it goes into effect with the current Bosnian Serb political leadership still in place, would defy calls by the Clinton Administration to shun those leaders.

Then music companies saw sales decline as people swapped music over the Internet, openly defying calls from the industry to stop.

The two encounter several death defying close calls before Woody manages to secure Buzz and escort him to I. Gypem's office.

Mr. Redwood today defied calls to drop out.

Russia has agreed to sell two nuclear power stations to India, defying calls to punish New Delhi because of its testing of nuclear weapons.