71.   Holl emerged from talks with members of the ruling council and was tight-lipped about the discussions.

72.   Holl was met at Kabul airport by two members of the six-man Taliban ruling council of Kabul, Maulavi Hafizullah and Maulavi Baz Mohammad.

73.   In a lightning strike the Taliban captured the Nangarhar provincial capital Jalalabad Wednesday after the local ruling council, or shoora, largely fled without resistance.

74.   A member of the new ruling Taliban council in Kabul said that strict religious and social laws would be ruthlessly imposed.

75.   Abacha, who seized power in a coup last November, included four civilian members in his original ruling council but sacked the last of them on Tuesday.

76.   Abdullah said Ghazni Governor Qari Baba was still in power but admitted that the mujahedeen shoora or ruling council now also included a number of the Taliban.

77.   Albright reminded members of the ruling council of state that the civil war that devastated this country over the last six years was their war.

78.   But he knows that he and his ruling council are under intense scrutiny over what really happened in the voting at the figure skating pairs final.

79.   But the ruling council of state last month replaced her with Andrews.

80.   But the UUP ruling council, a seperate body, may now be called in the next few weeks to examine similar motion.