71.   For the last ten days, farmers have staged hourly blockades along sections of a highway linking Athens to the northern port city of Thessaloniki.

72.   For nearly two weeks, angry farmers have been staging hourly blockades along sections of a highway linking Athens to the northern port city of Thessaloniki.

73.   Foreign Ministry sources said that customs officials in the northern port city of Salonica had seized a disassembled oil drill that was in transit for Bulgaria.

74.   Forty people were evacuated from an apartment house in the northern port city of Hamburg when high winds threatened to topple a building crane.

75.   French fisherman blocked northern ports for a second day Wednesday but faced court action as their protest stranded hundreds of truckers and diverted car ferries.

76.   French fisherman blocked northern ports for a second day Wednesday, but courts ordered them to end their protest that stranded hundreds of truckers and diverted car ferries.

77.   French fisherman blocked northern ports for a second day Wednesday and persuaded the government to meet with them as their protest stranded hundreds of truckers and diverted car ferries.

78.   Gathering in this northern port, the mayors represented the capitals and other big cities in Albania, Bosnia, Macedonia, Romania, Turkey and Yugoslavia.

79.   Haytoglou was kidnapped by three men last Friday in the northern port city of Salonica, where his company is based.

80.   Government spokesman Dimitris Reppas said the diplomat, identified as Nedim Ezergin, serves at the Turkish consulate in the northern port city of Salonica.