61.   Turkey, a NATO member, has also applied to join but is lagging behind the other candidates.

62.   Turkey has applied to join the union but the human rights issue is a key stumbling block.

63.   U.S. District Judge C. Weston Houck set the deadlines at a hearing Thursday at which lawyers said two more women applied to join the corps of cadets.

64.   Ukraine has not applied to join, but signed a special partnership charter with the alliance at the Madrid summit.

65.   Zhelev also blasted the government for hedging on applying to join NATO.

66.   Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic met his Belorussian counterpart Wednesday, denouncing NATO airstrikes against Yugoslavia, which he said has formally applied to join a Slavic union.

67.   Yugoslavia has also applied to join.

68.   Guinea-Bissau has applied to join but has not paid its entry dues.

69.   He also cautioned that South Korea, which in March formally applied to join the OECD, could find its own shipbuilders falling victim to over-capacity.

70.   It later developed into an informal organ of regional cooperation after its participants all applied to join the EU.