71.   This stable winter time pattern should continue into Friday.

72.   It added that should this pattern continue in September, third-quarter gains in the index would slow down markedly from the second quarter pace.

73.   But it said Midwest manufacturing growth should still rise at a faster rate than the nation in the third quarter, if the pattern of moderating activity continues nationwide.

74.   The first is that the current pattern continues -- an uneasy balance with Tutsis controlling the towns and the army clashing with Hutu guerrillas in the countryside.