51.   Sheehan said Afghanistan has been at the heart of U.S. measures to counter terrorism.

52.   Ted McNamara, the State Department official coordinating action on terrorism, said the United States still had unfinished tasks to fulfill the Security Council mandate on countering terrorism.

53.   The general said Israel retained the option of moving its forces into Palestinian-held territory to counter terrorism.

54.   Vice President Dick Cheney also cited Iraq as a threat in making a case Monday for an active U.S. attitude toward countering terrorism.

55.   India and China held talks Tuesday on ways to counter terrorism, including the possibility of cooperation to fight the menace.

56.   India insists Musharraf must do more to implement his pledges to counter terrorism, although Taylor made it clear that Washington already feels he has taken significant steps.

57.   Ironically, he is now taking up the same cause -- countering terrorism -- that helped catapult Israeli hard-line Likud party leader Benjamin Netanyahu to international prominence.

58.   A code of conduct for countering terrorism was adopted at a summit of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference in Casablanca last month.

59.   And Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was to press PLO leader Yasser Arafat at a meeting Thursday on what he was doing to counter terrorism.

60.   But the Anti-Defamation League struck a different note and said it supported efforts to counter terrorism because attacks were on the rise.