61.   Heavy clouds and rain throughout most of eastern and central Australia ruled out any chance of sighting the meteors.

62.   Heavy clouds spread from New Mexico across the Gulf states into Florida.

63.   However, al-Qaida had ringed the area with land mines and heavy clouds and snow had made low-level, pinpoint bombing difficult.

64.   However, al-Qaida had ringed the area with land mines, and heavy clouds and snow had made low-level, pinpoint bombing difficult.

65.   However, heavy clouds descended below the peaks on Friday night, prohibiting air strikes through Saturday, Group Capt. D.N. Ganesh told reporters in New Delhi.

66.   In Cornwall, at the southwest tip of England, heavy clouds made the two-minute spectacle invisible to hundreds of thousands who had come to watch.

67.   Most of the East was forecast to be masked by heavy cloud cover, but skies should gradually clear over the lower Mississippi Valley and pleasant conditions will prevail.

68.   On Hatteras Island, skies thickened with heavy gray clouds and tall, white-crested waves smacked the pilings of the piers along the shore.

69.   Satellite monitoring of fires had been hampered by heavy clouds, Kuri said.

70.   Satellite photos showed heavy clouds over much of the country.