71.   Reversing policy, Powell endorsed the idea of outside observers earlier in the day at a news conference with Arafat in Ramallah on the West Bank.

72.   That deposition hearing was closed to outside observers.

73.   The Palestinians are pressing for a new Security Council resolution, this time without any call for outside observers to help calm the situation.

74.   The voting was run by the Russian military, which entered Chechnya last September, and no outside election observers were present.

75.   These included a cut in the number of inspectors going into the building and a request for outside observers.

76.   Akayev is considered by outside observers the most democratic of the leaders of the five ex-Soviet central Asian republics.

77.   Baghdad has dropped its usual reticence to outside observers and invited hundreds of foreigners to oversee the poll.

78.   Outside observers said the perfect record does not count at least three hijackings over the past decade.