51.   Palestinians on Thursday lobbed a mortar shell into an Israeli-Palestinian liaison office in the Gaza Strip, killing an Israeli officer.

52.   Possible sites mentioned by Israeli media included the Egyptian resort of Taba and the Israel-PLO liaison office at the Erez crossing between Israel and the Gaza Strip.

53.   Peres and Arafat met at an Israel-PLO liaison office near the Erez checkpoint between Israel and Palestinian-controlled Gaza.

54.   Powell said he would send diplomatic trouble-shooter James Dobbins, the U.S. envoy to Central Asia, to open the liaison office.

55.   A local Falun Gong spokeswoman, Sharon Xu, said demonstrators had been arrested in Hong Kong only once before, also outside the Chinese liaison office.

56.   A Palestinian stabbed and critically wounded an Israeli on Tuesday at an Israel-PLO liaison office, radio reports said.

57.   A prosecutor played video footage Wednesday that showed Falun Gong practitioners trading accusations with police who broke up a protest outside the Chinese government liaison office here.

58.   A small number of Palestinians turned up at other liaison offices in Gaza and in the West Bank, but there was no cooperation between the two sides.

59.   A proposal initiated by the White House to upgrade the respective government liaison offices in Hanoi and Washington to full embassy status should be vigorously pursued.

60.   A low-level U.S. liaison office opened in January.