71.   Earlier Friday, a wave of suspected IRA-coded bomb alerts and two small explosions wreaked havoc in northern England.

72.   Eight hundred people were ordered off a train at Fontainebleau, south of Paris, after a telephoned bomb alert by an alleged sympathiser of the three.

73.   The official said that the delays were caused by security procedures, such as checks made necessary by the bomb alerts.

74.   The Paris Bourse was evacuated Monday and trading on the options market suspended after a bomb alert, a Bourse official said.

75.   The normally bustling streets of Monday morning London ground to a virtual standstill as a series of IRA pre-election bomb alerts turned downtown briefly into a ghost town.

76.   The only incident reported in Tahiti was a bomb alert at the Bank of Tahiti but there was no indication it was linked to the nuclear tests.

77.   The protestors also put out hoax bomb alerts.

78.   The two bomb alerts, which led to traffic being relocated to other Italian airports, were later found to be false alarms, the authorities said.

79.   The spokesman rejected criticism that the police reacted slowly to the bomb alerts.

80.   The stock exchange said its two main buildings -- in the city centre and in the Hausen suburb of Frankfurt -- were evacuated due to the bomb alert.