61.   Normally docile labor representatives have threatened to boycott the meetings altogether unless wages are increased in line with recent inflation levels.

62.   On Thursday the United States announced it would boycott several meetings in Japan dealing with science and the environment in protest at the expansion of whaling.

63.   On Tuesday, CGIL leaders boycotted a meeting of union confederations with the premier to discuss the labor reforms.

64.   One Muslim leader boycotted a meeting with him.

65.   Other parties opposed to Buyoya said they were boycotting the meeting.

66.   President Glafcos Clerides left Monday for U.N. talks on the reunification of Cyprus, despite the Turkish Cypriot decision to boycott the meeting.

67.   Qatar in recent months has irked its GCC partners, especially Saudi Arabia, by boycotting council meetings over the choice of a Saudi national as chairman.

68.   Representatives of the Moscow Patriarchate said they would boycott a meeting Sunday between the pope and leaders of Ukrainian churches.

69.   Rabbi Simcha Weiss said the rabbinate made the decision to boycott council meetings on Monday.

70.   Saudi Arabia and most other Gulf Arab states are boycotting the meeting, citing a lack of progress in Arab-Israeli peace talks.