51.   After a night at Sarajevo airport listening to explosions and gunfire, the new acting U.S. ambassador to Bosnia abandoned his attempt to reach the capital Saturday.

52.   Authorities recently have stepped up efforts to force Tong and others to abandon their attempt to get war reparations.

53.   But thwarted by impenetrable mangrove swamps, authorities decided to abandon the attempt to retrieve bodies and will seal off the area around Sissano lagoon.

54.   Champion cyclist Miguel Indurain abandoned an attempt to break the one-hour distance record Sunday.

55.   Church officials abandoned attempts to have them forcibly removed after two men doused themselves with gasoline.

56.   Defense lawyers abandoned that attempt when Syria refused to deliver possibly incriminating documents despite negotiations that interrupted the trial for several weeks.

57.   Fossett and Rutan in January were both forced to abandon rival attempts to circle the world in a balloon.

58.   He said the Indians might have been saved if the Japanese had abandoned their attempt to reach the peak and helped the injured climbers descend.

59.   In an important victory for the prosecution, attorneys for former football star O.J. Simpson abandoned their attempt to keep DNA evidence from the jury.

60.   In February, political bickering forced longtime bureaucrat Antonio Maccanico to abandon attempts to form a government dedicated to reforms.