71.   Overnight, Israeli forces sealed off the Palestinian neighborhood of Issawiyah in Jerusalem, removing residents and searching their homes for militant suspects.

72.   Other letters prompted officials to seal off part of the Australian embassy in Sri Lanka and a post office in Corfu, Greece.

73.   Police sealed off a bank here Tuesday after an armed man took six people hostage, a police spokeswoman said.

74.   Police sealed off a downtown square Wednesday as the government prepared for a showdown with striking junior doctors and nurses.

75.   Police sealed off a huge swath of the city, nine miles south of San Diego, as people in nearby offices cowered in doorways.

76.   Police sealed off a main square of the Swiss financial capital Thursday because of a suspicious device that could be a land mine, a spokesman said.

77.   Police sealed off Connaught Place, a crowded shopping area that attracts foreign tourists.

78.   Police sealed off petrol stations and blocked tens of thousands of panicked vehicle owners rushing to fill up fearing a fuel shortage.

79.   Police sealed off the area, a popular shopping street in Khobar, while rescue workers and firefighters searched through the wreckage littered with broken glass.

80.   Police sealed off the area, fearing other bombs might be hidden nearby.