61.   Israel had asked Spanish authorities not to permit the plane to take off, Gol said.

62.   Jewish organizations have asked authorities to return a variety of goods, from art works in Austria to gold in Swiss bank vaults.

63.   Jewish organizations around Europe have asked authorities to return a variety of confiscated property, from art works in Austria to gold in Swiss bank vaults.

64.   Kanak Singh Dasauli said he had asked civil authorities to speed up deliveries of food and medicine to his village of Kiruli, well off the main road.

65.   Last month, Del Ponte asked authorities in the Bosnian Serb entity for help in finding Karadzic.

66.   Landale said he did not know if the tribunal had any plans to ask Bosnian authorities to defer the case to The Hague.

67.   Many analysts had expected the IMF would ask Thai authorities to do so.

68.   Meanwhile, the International Committee of the Red Cross Thursday asked Israeli authorities to allow its personnel to recover the body of the guerrilla killed outside Kfar Tibnit.

69.   Munich prosecutor Peter Schlicht said his office would ask authorities in France to have Le Pen testify before a magistrate there as part of the probe.

70.   Mwanawasa had recently asked authorities to look into bringing charges against journalists who had allegedly defamed him.