61.   But on Wednesday the court ruled that the Californian courts should decide their future.

62.   Downer said he had been assured in Jakarta that Indonesia would not abandon East Timor, and would decide the future of its disputed province within months.

63.   East Timorese pro-independence groups have insisted that a referendum be held in the territory to decide its future.

64.   Erekat said Netanyahu was sending bulldozers to decide the future of Jerusalem instead of negotiating with the Palestinians as promised.

65.   Eric Lindros might be better off if an arbitrator decides his future one more time.

66.   Gibraltar residents vehemently oppose Spanish rule and demand they decide their future.

67.   He has also been trying to unite exiled Iraqi opposition groups to decide the future of a post-Saddam Iraq.

68.   He must also decide the future of ongoing peace talks with neighboring Peru.

69.   However, its people should be allowed to decide their future after years of human-rights abuses and atrocities by the Indonesian military, he said.

70.   In the end, the goal of the next general election will be the key factor as each party decides its future.