51.   U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright announced a series of agreements with Vietnam Friday while admonishing Vietnamese authorities to do more to protect human rights.

52.   Vietnamese authorities are obliged to notify U.S. diplomats of any arrests of Americans under a consular agreement the two governments signed last May.

53.   Vietnamese authorities let consular officers visit the one Caucasian American last June, two months after his arrest.

54.   Vietnamese authorities regularly condemn prostitution and speak out often of the need to eradicate it.

55.   Vietnamese authorities say heroin and opium trafficking, as well as drug use, have increased in recent years as the country has relaxed border controls.

56.   Vietnamese authorities have arrested another top Buddhist leader in a continuing crackdown against a banned Buddhist group, a French-based human rights group said Thursday.

57.   Vietnamese authorities see foreign bank branches as one way to attract investment to the capital Hanoi and speed development in the north of the country.

58.   Wold also praised Vietnamese authorities for helping to organize field excavations.

59.   Files on those to be repatriated have been turned over to the Vietnamese authorities, but have been snarled in red tape, German interior ministry officials say.

60.   IMF official Shigemitsu Sugisaki said Vietnamese authorities should make efforts to increase revenues and observe greater discipline in spending.