61.   WNBA President Val Ackerman said McCray will likely play with one of the two expansion teams that will be announced before the end of the year.

62.   Patterson said the name should be announced before the March groundbreaking.

63.   Preliminary results announced just before midnight Monday showed the vote fell short of the two-thirds needed for secession.

64.   After hours of closed-door talks in Zagreb, Frowick announced just before midnight that the Croat party HDZ would participate in the elections.

65.   As his election was announced before a packed hall of Liberal Democratic legislators, Hashimoto bowed and shook hands with Koizumi.

66.   Bielefeld coach Ernst Middendorp announced shortly before the game that Iranian national team player Ali Daei would not be playing for Bielefeld Sunday as planned.

67.   Both Israeli and Palestinian hard-liners announced even before the signing ceremony that they would try their utmost to torpedo the agreement.

68.   But it was not clear whether a decision would be made in time to announce before Bush heads back to Texas.

69.   But the small party announced shortly before the vote that it was backing the minister.

70.   Definitive results of the testing are not expected to be announced before June.