71.   Importers have ceased supplying the diesel because of unpaid debts, causing many local power stations to shut down and forcing the authorities to ration electricity.

72.   A strike called by Moslem separatists to denounce Indian-sponsored general elections crippled the Kashmir Valley Monday, forcing authorities to order unprecedented security measures.

73.   A rash of recent robberies on trains passing through Bihar has forced the authorities to deploy heavily-armed police escorts with the rail passengers.

74.   But thousands of people have stayed in the school gymnasiums or parks forcing the authorities to start their campaign to make the survivors more independent.

75.   Death row prisoners last week threatened to go on hunger strike to force authorities to speed up their transfers to prisons closer to their families.

76.   Earlier on Friday, the drivers had forced the authorities to improve an emergency new chicane on what they considered a dangerous part of the Catalunya circuit.

77.   Donors raised the issue of a main supply route to Jaffna which is still controlled by the LTTE, forcing authorities to use expensive air and sea transport.

78.   The network said darkness, bad weather and a technical problem with a floating crane used in the salvage work forced authorities to suspend operations until Monday.

79.   The rash of deaths filled the morgue and forced authorities to use refrigerated trucks to hold bodies.

80.   It also voted to open secret Sigurimi files and forced authorities to pursue former agents through the courts.