61.   Foreign leaders shunned Samper and canceled state visits to Bogota.

62.   Fujimori came to Washington not on a state visit, but rather as a participant in a forum on international loans for small businesses.

63.   Frei is in Washington for a state visit and hopes to persuade lawmakers to speed up the process for a free trade agreement with his country.

64.   Friday, his first full day in office, Hashimoto spoke by telephone with President Clinton, who is planning a state visit to Japan in mid-April.

65.   From there, she plans to join President Clinton for state visits to Greece and Turkey.

66.   Governments like to talk to other governments, so the cache of a state visit can help a business executive get in the door to make a sale.

67.   Hashimoto also had to cancel plans for a state visit to the United States later this month.

68.   He also dropped tentative plans for a state visit to Ukraine.

69.   Half a year later, Nigeria welcomed Carter, who became the first American president to pay a state visit to a sub-Saharan country.

70.   He has left it exclusively to the prime minister and the president to make state visits, meet diplomats and to talk with reporters.