71.   Bavaria will not join two other German states in suspending deportations of Algerians because of the massacres in their homeland, officials said Thursday.

72.   Both banks are based in Munich, the capital of the rich German state of Bavaria.

73.   But as disillusionment with the new German state grew, particularly among residents of the former East Germany, support for the merger faltered.

74.   But EU officials indicated the German state of Saxony would have to freeze subsidies it has been paying to VW in defiance of a Commission ruling.

75.   By The Associated Press Voters in three German states chose new state legislatures Sunday.

76.   Chancellor Helmut Kohl wants to trim the German state, but he wants it leaner, not meaner.

77.   Chancellor Helmut Kohl condemned the opposition Social Democrats on Tuesday for joining forces with former communists to stay in power in an eastern German state.

78.   Critics say the proposal, launched by several German states in early January, reminds them of police state tactics and will encourage people to snoop on each other.

79.   Despite legal action by the European Commission, several German states had already banned imports of British beef and pressure mounted on the government to impose a nationwide ban.

80.   Educators in the western German state of Saarland have even said they would stock the English version in school libraries to help students learn the language.