71.   Bangladesh has expressed its interest to participate in the reconstruction of Afghanistan and contribute troops to a U.N.-led peace mission.

72.   Beijing has repeatedly threatened to veto extensions of the U.N. peace keeping mission in Haiti because the government there also maintains diplomatic ties with Taiwan.

73.   Bosnian Serb leaders, trying to encourage former President Jimmy Carter to launch a new peace mission, promised Thursday that they would allow the airport to reopen.

74.   Bosnian Serbs accused the Muslim-led government of staging the massacre to pressure them as the peace mission got under way.

75.   Both ministers reiterated their positions that observers from neighboring countries should participate in the peace verifying mission in Kosovo.

76.   Bosnian Serbs accused the Muslim-led government of staging the massacre to put pressure on them as the peace mission got under way.

77.   British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw visited Islamabad and New Delhi on a peace mission.

78.   Bosnian defenders and attacking Serbs traded heavy machine-gun and small-arms fire around embattled Bihac on Thursday in the wake of a failed U.N. peace mission.

79.   Bush is considering sending Secretary of State Colin Powell on peace mission to the Middle East.

80.   Bush was also considering sending Secretary of State Colin Powell on a peace mission to the Middle East.