61.   The Vienna conference took place as hope faded that Serb and ethnic Albanian political leaders meeting in Paris would reach a peace agreement on Kosovo.

62.   U.S. officials have suggested the conference will take place in June.

63.   U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell has said that a peace conference might take place in the summer.

64.   U.S. officials have suggested the conference will take place early June.

65.   Yeltsin urged all sides to seek a political solution to the war and proposed a conference to take place no later than October.

66.   Israeli public radio said that the conference could take place within six weeks.

67.   As well as the financial incentives on display in Barcelona, the conference is also taking place amid political good will.

68.   Authorities in Munich have banned demonstrations this weekend while an international security conference takes place in the southern German city, a lawyer for demonstrators said Thursday.

69.   But a French government spokesman in Paris said the signing conference would take place regardless.

70.   Burns noted that the Cuban government had not publicly stated it would not allow the first Concilio Cubano conference to take place.