71.   The foreign minister also expressed hope the NATO bombings would be stopped completely.

72.   The Islamic militant group Hamas said it would not stop the bombings.

73.   The seven leading industrialized nations and Russia, meeting in Cologne, Germany, agreed to stop the bombings once a Yugoslav troop withdrawal from Kosovo is verified.

74.   The radio said the army has also been ordered to stop bombings of Palestinian targets and home demolitions and remove some roadblocks in the Palestinian areas.

75.   U.S. President George W. Bush, speaking Friday in Texas, urged Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat to stop suicide bombings and said Israel should show restraint.

76.   Yeltsin said he agreed that stopping the bombing was essential.

77.   Yeltsin once before said he was stopping the bombing of Grozny, but Russian warplanes continued their attacks, destroying, among other things, an orphanage.

78.   In a recent letter to The New York Times, the Unabomber offered to stop the bombings if the national media would publish a manuscript on his views.

79.   A Palestinian official said Thursday Hamas had told Saudi Arabia it is willing to stop suicide bombings on Israeli territory.

80.   China urged the international community on Thursday not to give up its peace efforts in the Middle East and made an explicit appeal to Palestinians to stop suicide bombings.