61.   Yang said it was too soon to try to assign blame.

62.   Police did not immediately assign blame for either explosion.

63.   Although she also said Arafat could and should stop the violence, she refused to assign blame for the worst Palestinian-Israeli violence in four years.

64.   Amid shock and sorrow, the attempts to assign blame have begun.

65.   Arafat and police officials did not directly assign blame, but Palestinian Planning Minister Nabil Shaath accused Israel of carrying out the assassination.

66.   Arzu defended the amnesty, and suggested Guatemalans should look beyond assigning blame for the war.

67.   Bosnian Serb generals and civilian leaders have been at odds over efforts to assign blame for recent losses of territory.

68.   Bosnian Serb leaders fired four generals in a bid to assign blame for major battlefield setbacks and appealed to Serbia to help prevent more losses.

69.   But Clinton and the State Department declined to assign any blame.

70.   But they cautioned it was too early to definitively assign blame.