61.   It has also relegated the conference to a provincial town with inadequate lodging more than an hour by bus from Beijing.

62.   It has also relegated the forum to a provincial town more than an hour by bus from Beijing.

63.   Iraqi telephone lines are unreliable even within Baghdad, and it is almost impossible to place calls to provincial towns outside the capital.

64.   Lumumba, who had been under house arrest since the coup, slipped away from U.N. guards and tried to reach his base in a provincial town.

65.   Meanwhile, the Tajik Interior Ministry said three Hizb ut-Tahrir activists were detained Sunday and Monday in Dushanbe and two provincial towns.

66.   Milosevic has used a monopoly on the media to keep support, especially in provincial towns and rural areas.

67.   Milosevic has used a monopoly on the media to maintain support, especially in provincial towns and rural areas.

68.   Mobs armed with sickles and swords on Monday battled each other and hurled gasoline bombs at houses and shops in an Indonesian provincial town.

69.   Newspapers ran banner headlines on the heavy voter participation, which caused some polling stations in provincial towns to run out of ballots.

70.   No one claimed responsibility for the attack, which followed a pattern of similar unexplained and unclaimed bombings in Vientiane and provincial towns that have injured dozens of people.