41.   It broadcast an urgent appeal for surgical teams, medical supplies, tents, food, water tankers and ambulances.

42.   It was the deadliest day of violence in six weeks and followed an urgent appeal by President Bush to Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat to curb the violence.

43.   Justice Minister Patrick Chinimasa told opposition lawyers that he would launch an urgent appeal to the Supreme Court Sunday night.

44.   Lucien Bouchard made the urgent appeal Sunday as plunging temperatures threatened those trying to hold out in unheated homes, some for a sixth straight day.

45.   Local hospitals were overwhelmed with the wounded Monday, according to officials, who issued an urgent appeal for blood donations.

46.   Meanwhile, a French aid organization issued an urgent appeal for more food aid in northern Afghanistan.

47.   Meanwhile, the State Department said Palestinian leaders had not taken adequate steps to curb violence against Israel despite urgent U.S. appeals.

48.   North Korea made an urgent appeal last week for outside help, saying its grain stocks will run out in mid-March.

49.   Officials and survivors dismissed criticism of the public executions, including an urgent appeal by Pope John Paul II to grant the condemned clemency.

50.   On Saturday, foreign ministers gathered in Burkina Faso broke from their scheduled talks and issued an urgent appeal for Ethiopia and Eritrea to adopt a peace plan.