71.   Demonstrators warned they would step up protests if their pleas were ignored.

72.   For nearly a decade, the European Union has kept its doors tightly shut, ignoring pleas from neighboring nations for admission to the exclusive club.

73.   He also ignored pleas last year by panel chairman Nobel Laureate Desmond Tutu that he and other apartheid era leaders should apply for amnesty from the commission.

74.   He declared that Russian officials ignored his pleas for help.

75.   He said congressmen and immigration officials ignored his pleas to deport his former wife, Larisa, and her daughters, Olga and Shasha.

76.   However, people seem to have ignored the plea.

77.   Hundreds of thousands of refugees have ignored pleas to delay their returns until land mines can be cleared and the province made safe.

78.   Hypersensitive about its new alliance with Baghdad, the KDP says it turned to Saddam only after the West ignored its pleas for help.

79.   IG Metall has ignored pleas for moderation from Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, a Social Democrat who relies heavily on labor support.

80.   Ignoring international pleas to end their two-year border conflict, Ethiopia and Eritrea returned to open war on Friday with fighting reported on three fronts.