41.   The Gambia resumed diplomatic ties with Israel in mid-September.

42.   Both sides agreed to strengthen political ties with regular consultations at foreign minister level.

43.   He said that Hamas intended to strengthen its ties with the Iranian-backed Hezbollah movement in Lebanon.

44.   The diocese had strong ties with England and there were important commercial considerations.

45.   As Iran and Iraq were further sources, Japan sought to maintain strong bilateral ties with both countries.

46.   How could the centre maintain its administrative ties with the masses to ensure adequate national defense and tax collection?.

47.   At the end of the war Churchill was the most famous of those who wished to give the highest priority to close and continuing ties with the United States.

48.   Finally the CIA itself benefited from its intimate ties with the British Intelligence community.

49.   The seventh piece shows one such fresh-faced and owlishly bespectacled lad in school tie with a kind of three-dimensional think bubble quite literally flying overhead.

50.   A sixth round tie with Nottingham Forest and the return of Brian Clough would be sandwiched between the Rumbelows League Cup semi-final legs with Manchester United.