51.   Relations soured even further when the Vatican announced the creation of four formal dioceses in Russia earlier this year.

52.   Relations soured in November when Egypt joined several Arab countries in boycotting an economic conference in Qatar that Israel attended.

53.   Relations soured when Dayaks complained of discrimination in education and job opportunities.

54.   Rossignolo appointed Gamberale to the job in February, but relations soured and hit bottom in May when the Telecom chairman criticized his subordinate in a newspaper interview.

55.   The good relations soured when Turkey joined the U.S.-led alliance against Iraq and hosted the Western air force formed to protect Iraqi Kurds.

56.   Their personal relations reportedly soured in controversy over the South Korean defense white paper.

57.   Those relations have soured amid Asian complaints of European harping on human rights.

58.   U.S.-China relations soured this summer when Washington allowed Taiwan President Lee Teng-hui to attend a class reunion at Cornell University.

59.   However they downplayed the surveillance flights and stressed the joint cooperation, which comes at a time when relations have soured dramatically between Iraq and Jordan.

60.   Chinese-Taiwanese relations have soured since Lee visited the United States in June.