91.   Even as the pact was being signed, explosions and bursts of machine-gun fire echoed around Grbavica, a Serb-held Sarajevo neighborhood on the front line.

92.   Facing the biggest political crisis of his four months in power, President Eduardo Duhalde signed a pact with provincial governors to work together to revive the unraveling economy.

93.   Five Asian countries signed a pact Wednesday to curb HIV infections from spreading across borders, officials said.

94.   Four Caribbean nations already have signed such pacts with Washington, and leaders of three more countries disclosed Friday that they were in the midst of negotiating agreements.

95.   Foreign Ministry spokesman Tang reiterated that Beijing was considering signing the pacts but warned against putting pressure on China.

96.   Four warring factions in Cambodia signed the pact, which includes a promise to ensure respect for human rights.

97.   Four Afghan factions sign pact to create post-Taliban interim administration.

98.   GoAmerica, a maker of wireless Web technology, also signed a pact with EDS Corp.

99.   Gulf governments have signed defense pacts with key members of the U.S.-led coalition that drove the Iraqis from Kuwait.

100.   He emphasized that his absence would be anything but a snub to the Western security alliance, with which he signed a pact last month.