61.   The diplomats have been trying for several days to get to Kabul to visit eight jailed foreign aid workers charged with propagating Christianity in this deeply conservative Muslim nation.

62.   The diplomats also were trying to meet Taliban officials to get more information about a decision by the Islamic militia to put the foreigners on trial.

63.   The Foreign Office said Irish diplomats were trying to get Bowen released and find out why he was held.

64.   U.S. diplomats have been trying to set up face-to-face talks between the Albanians and the Serbian government to discuss the future of the province.

65.   U.S. diplomats have tried to persuade the rebels that the United States will not race to the rescue again.

66.   U.S. diplomats are trying to reconcile two warring Kurdish factions that Western powers have protected for more than four years against President Saddam Hussein of Iraq.

67.   U.S. diplomats have been trying over the past two months to bring the warring factions to the negotiating table to work out the terms of a comprehensive peace settlement.

68.   U.S. diplomats have been trying to set up face-to-face talks between the Albanians and the Serb-run government to determine the future of the province.

69.   Vatican diplomats have been trying to help resolve the standoff.

70.   Western diplomats also tried to talk the students out of demonstrating.