51.   French President Jacques Chirac meets with Iraqi Foreign Minister Mohamed Saeed al-Sahhaf in the latest bid by France to ward off a threatened strike on Iraq.

52.   Gallois said the SNCF management was doing everything in its power to avert a threatened strike by train drivers who want more money.

53.   He said workers had yet to set a date for their threatened strike.

54.   He opposed some of those presidents, but his threatened strikes were usually bargaining chips in the struggle for power within the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI.

55.   Holbrooke on Monday resumed talks with Milosevic on defusing the Kosovo crisis and avoiding the threatened strikes.

56.   KLM, the flag-carrying Dutch airline, Friday appealed to its pilots not to carry out threatened strike action next week.

57.   Labor unrest eased Thursday after threatened strikes by subway and telecommunications workers were averted in the face of a strong government warning of intervention.

58.   Meanwhile thousands of oil workers on Monday called off a threatened nationwide strike after accepting the latest wage offer from government-run oil giant, Petrobras.

59.   One potentially big bottleneck was avoided when President Bush announced he would stop a threatened strike by American Airlines flight attendants, keeping the airline flying.

60.   Potentially more disruptive would be a threatened strike by train drivers who want more money.