51.   With this budget Congress also dismisses out of hand the debt forgiveness plan agreed upon at a June meeting of the Group of Seven industrialized nations in Cologne.

52.   Wolens, during a committee meeting of lawamkers overseeing that process, leveled some of his harshest criticism at the operator of the state power grid.

53.   Pardo, president of Philippine Seven Corp., made the announcement after the first public annual stockholders meeting of the firm.

54.   Perhaps the single most important point of agreement to come out of the Halifax meeting of the Group of Seven and Russia, is commitment to fight international crime.

55.   Police staved off violent confrontations and destruction of property of the kind that took place last fall at the Seattle meeting of the World Trade Organization.

56.   Pope opens meeting of bishops.

57.   A companion meeting of private advocacy groups, including some international human rights groups, held its opening ceremony on Wednesday.

58.   ADDS meeting of NATO foreign ministers Tuesday in the Netherlands.

59.   After a third meeting of the working group on Monday, authorities still did not venture to say when the jet might return to duty.

60.   After a Friday night meeting of the Alliance, its leaders said they might call for a no-confidence vote against Pawlak.