51.   Several large but distant explosions could also be heard in Jalalabad but it could not be determined how far away the detonations were from the northeastern city.

52.   Sources contacted by telephone in Jalalabad said it appeared the Taliban was preparing to abandon that northeastern city too.

53.   Sources contacted by telephone in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad said it appeared the Taliban were preparing to abandon that northeastern city too.

54.   Sources in Jalalabad, contacted by telephone from Pakistan, said anti-Taliban forces had taken over the northeastern city.

55.   Some of the raids struck Serb positions around Tuzla, after Bosnian Serbs repeatedly shelled the U.N.-controlled airfield near that northeastern city.

56.   Spanish poet Jose Agustin Goytisolo died Friday after apparently committing suicide by throwing himself from a window of his apartment in this northeastern city.

57.   Spanish poet Jose Agustin Goytisolo died Friday after committing suicide by throwing himself from a window of his apartment in this northeastern city, National Spanish Television TVE reported.

58.   Squatters in that northeastern city demonstrated and organized symbolic occupations over the weekend in sympathy with those jailed in Madrid.

59.   Tang, a former auto worker in northeastern Changchun city, spent eight years in prison for organizing sympathy protests to back the Tiananmen Square demonstrations.

60.   The archbishop of Barcelona, Cardinal Ricard Maria Carles, railed against the government media campaigns in a weekly newsletter article sent to parishes in his northeastern Spanish city.