61.   An advance party of military observers left Zimbabwe for Angola last week.

62.   An advance party of US officials due to arrive in Sarajevo from Frankfurt Saturday put off the flight, Menzies noted however.

63.   An IFOR spokesman in Slavonski Brod told AFP that the soldiers were coming as advance parties for the rest of the troops.

64.   An advance party is already in the country and the first troops, could arrive here as early as Thursday, officials said.

65.   An advance party of Chinese troops spends their first day in Hong Kong.

66.   An advance party of the maroon-bereted paratroopers has already joined the Royal Marines on security operations within Kabul.

67.   An AFP reporter waiting at the air base gates said the advance party arrived aboard four armoured personnel carriers, driving in from Kiseljak, near Sarajevo.

68.   And officials in London said a three-member British advance party had left for the Middle East.

69.   Britain and China have reached agreement to allow an advance party of Chinese troops to be stationed in Hong Kong ahead of the handver in July.

70.   Britain on Thursday called on China to provide more information on the advance party of Chinese military personnel to be sent to Hong Kong before the handover in July.