71.   Towns and villages across Kabylie are similarly shut to would-be voters.

72.   Thousands of villages across the country remained cut off from the rest of the world as highway authorities attempted unsuccessfully to open roads in the face of continuing blizzards.

73.   It was not clear how many other towns and villages across the country would follow suit.

74.   ORT television reported that the Russian offensive against villages across southern Chechnya, some of them full of civilians, was continuing.

75.   Pakistani officials said their troops were responding after Indian forces started shelling villages across the de facto border early Sunday.

76.   Pakistani officials said their troops retaliated Sunday after Indian forces started shelling villages across the LoC.

77.   Palestinian radio said the action was also followed in smaller towns and villages across the West Bank.

78.   Russian assaults on the front that winds from village to village across southern Chechnya in the last week have failed, Maskhadov said.

79.   Tens of thousands of people participated in the prayers held at mosques in cities, towns and villages across the country.