51.   Family members and others were preparing a memorial ceremony for Friday afternoon.

52.   Government leaders and relatives gathered in a memorial ceremony.

53.   Hundreds of Israeli soldiers had to hand in their weapons before being allowed into an army memorial ceremony attended by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the army confirmed Wednesday.

54.   Investigators planned to view the sunken vessel with a camera mounted on an unmanned submarine after a short memorial ceremony Wednesday.

55.   Israel will achieve peace without relinquishing control over east Jerusalem, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon told families of fallen soldiers at the memorial ceremony.

56.   Kor, whose sister died two years ago, left Indiana on Monday and was to take part in memorial ceremonies later this week.

57.   Manfred Seitner, the U.N. police commissioner, was in tears at a memorial ceremony for the seven U.N. officials killed in the crash.

58.   Memorial ceremonies also are planned for Yad Vashem, the official memorial authority, as well as at two kibbutz collective villages established by Holocaust survivors.

59.   Military memorial ceremonies were planned at both bases, the Army Operational Command said.

60.   Memorial ceremonies also were held in several other cities in the mining region.