61.   Tensions have since eased with resolution of the power-sharing issue.

62.   Tensions later eased.

63.   Tensions were easing in Achkhoi-Martan, another town taken over by Chechen fighters on the eve of the election, the ITAR-Tass news agency said.

64.   Tensions eased between the two neighboring Southern African countries after they began discussing security concerns.

65.   Tensions eased somewhat Thursday between the United States and Brazil over removing hemispheric trade barriers to create the Free Trade Area of the Americas.

66.   Tensions had eased by midday as temperatures soared.

67.   Tensions have eased between Taiwan and China after Beijing last month ended a nine-month-old campaign of intimidation, including menacing war games near Taiwanese waters.

68.   That Greece submitted a bid for those games was another sign that tensions have eased.

69.   Tensions eased after high-level diplomacy by the United States and other countries.

70.   Tensions eased following intensive U.S. and other international diplomacy and after pledges by President Pervez Musharraf that he would prevent insurgents from crossing into Indian-controlled Kashmir.