61.   American mediator Dennis Ross left for Washington Sunday after yet another inconclusive peace mission.

62.   American military officials said Tuesday a U.S. soldier with the NATO-led peace mission in Bosnia was raped, and they suspected Czech peacekeepers.

63.   An advance party of Russian peacekeepers left Monday for Bosnia to take part in the NATO-led peace mission in the former Yugoslavia, officials said.

64.   An international peace mission said Wednesday it found human rights violations in a U.S.-backed military operation against a Muslim extremist group.

65.   As government troops end their assault and refugees try to survive another day, a new peace mission is taking shape in capitals far away.

66.   As Iraq awaited the arrival Friday of the U.N. chief for a make-or-break peace mission, an influential newspaper expressed fears that America is hungry for military strikes.

67.   As Washington tried to salvage its Mideast peace mission, tensions rose over Israeli construction plans on disputed land in the Jewish West Bank settlement of Yitzhar.

68.   As he spoke, Secretary of State Colin Powell was in Israel on a peace mission tracked by new violence.

69.   As U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell continued his peace mission to the region, British lawmakers held an emotional debate on the violence in the Middle East.

70.   As Washington tried to salvage its Mideast peace mission, tensions rose over Israeli construction plans on disputed land.