61.   VF Corp., whose brands include Lee and Wrangler, in April ended talks to buy the company.

62.   VF, which makes Lee jeans and Jantzen backpacks, ended the talks less than a month after it signed a letter of intent to buy Maidenform.

63.   Viacom Inc. said it ended talks with Seagram Co. unit MCA Inc. to settle a lawsuit over their USA Network partnership agreement.

64.   Weeks later, the companies ended talks.

65.   Whatever the excuse for ending the talks, there was never more than a sliver of hope for their success.

66.   Western officials said the new goal was to end the talks over the weekend.

67.   OPEC delegates end informal talks without agreement on oil output,

68.   OPEC oil ministers ended informal talks Wednesday giving mixed signals about whether they had agreed to cut production in a bid to halt sliding oil prices.

69.   Panama was on alert Thursday, strengthening police and health services along its southern border after the president of neighboring Colombia ended peace talks with leftist guerrilla rebels.

70.   A failure to make any headway could effectively end the talks and plunge the South American country into deeper turmoil.