61.   Mondale departed Tokyo in December, leaving the critical diplomatic post vacant.

62.   Nineteen U.S. diplomatic posts are being closed, including three embassies, because of budget-cutting in the new Congress, the Clinton administration announced Tuesday.

63.   Opposition parties have accused the government of rewarding ruling party backers with diplomatic posts.

64.   President Bush has tapped former business partner Mercer Reynolds as ambassador to Switzerland and two prominent Republican supporters for the top diplomatic posts in Italy and France.

65.   President Bush has tapped former business partner Mercer Reynolds as ambassador to Switzerland and two prominent Republican supporters for diplomatic posts in Italy and France.

66.   Prime Minister Jean Chretien named the former Tory leader to the diplomatic post Thursday.

67.   Razak held a low-level diplomatic post, approving visas and renewing passports, said an Iraqi businessman who spoke on condition his name not be used.

68.   Singled out for special wrath in the book is Madeleine Albright, then in her first diplomatic post as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.

69.   The Belarus Foreign Ministry had accused Alexandrov of being a CIA agent who helped organize the rally under the guise of his diplomatic post.

70.   The findings in the annual report are the result of canvassing of U.S. diplomatic posts around the world and information provided by human rights groups.