31.   Land mine conference opens.

32.   On Monday, U.N. conference on cities opens in Istanbul, Turkey.

33.   On Friday, Chinese Communist Party conference opens.

34.   On Sunday, a world energy conference opens in Puerto La Cruz, Venezuela.

35.   On Tuesday, an international conference on land mines opens in Maputo, Mozambique.

36.   Pro-Palestinian conference opens in Iran with calls supporting uprising.

37.   Several victims of priestly molestation were scheduled to tell their stories to the full Catholic hierarchy on Thursday when the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops conference opens.

38.   Silajdzic and Kinkel were to confer on Thursday in Bonn, where a conference was opening on atrocities in the Bosnian conflict.

39.   The conference opened shortly after the bombing with participants insisting that Palestinians were fighting for their lives.

40.   The Cairo conference opened a day before the Group of Seven industrialized nation are to hold an anti-terror conference in Paris.