61.   Bildt blamed Radovan Karadzic, the Bosnian Serb leader, and Gen. Ratko Mladic, the Serb military commander, for preventing Serbs from attending the conference.

62.   Black Americans attending the conference here have worried that the discussion of the Middle East has overshadowed discussion about reparations for the descendants of African slaves.

63.   Board member Gene Walker was in Las Vegas where he was attending a conference unrelated to board business.

64.   Between Senate votes, Murray could be found ferrying her children to the doctor or attending teacher conferences.

65.   A top Vatican official, Cardinal Roger Etchegaray, was at the time on a rare public visit to Beijing to attend a conference.

66.   Aaron, who was in Beijing to attend a conference and meet with Chinese officials, offered hope that the huge trading partners could ultimately cooperate.

67.   Agents attending a conference in Minneapolis two weeks ago got a taste of the campaign when the first full-page ads appeared in a local newspaper.

68.   Al Carfora, the operator of a food company attending a conference at the hotel where Dole spoke, said the resignation was probably a good public relations move.

69.   Allbaugh was attending a conference of state emergency response officials in Montana when the attacks occurred, but he immediately returned to Washington.

70.   Allen Levine, a commissioner attending the conference from Lawrence, Kan., said the government needs to follow the lead of its cities.