61.   The cause of the blast was not known but Anatolia said officials suspected a suicide bombing by Kurdish rebels.

62.   The latest escalation began with a suicide bombing by the Islamic militant group Hamas on Wednesday in a hotel in the Israeli resort of Netanya.

63.   The skies came alive with anti-aircraft fire over parts of Afghanistan a few hours later, apparently heralding a fourth straight night of bombing by American warplanes.

64.   The weapons officer, Navy Cmdr. Frederick L. Ashworth, had to decide whether to bomb by radar or jettison several million dollars worth of bomb into the sea.

65.   They said these explosives were also used in the suicide bombing by a byciclist at an army checkpoint in Gaza two weeks ago.

66.   Three Israeli women were killed in a suicide bombing by an Islamic militant in Tel Aviv last month.

67.   Two days of bombing by U.S. and allied warplanes virtually shut down Bosnian Serb air defenses and helped silence artillery pieces that had terrorized Sarajevo.

68.   Weeks of bombing by the United States weakened the Taliban sufficiently for the northern alliance to move across enemy lines.

69.   France has suffered a wave of bombing by Islamic fundamentalists angered by French support of the Zeroual regime.

70.   A suicide bombing by the pro-Iranian Hezbollah failed to kill Israeli soldiers because of strict security regulations, a senior Israeli official said Wednesday.