61.   Earlier, police in the eastern cities of Metz and Nancy dragged unemployed activists out of public buildings they had been occupying overnight, radio France Info reported.

62.   Family members were allowed a brief visit with him at the police-run Qingchun Hospital in eastern Hangzhou city on Tuesday.

63.   Farmers upset over high government taxes drove their tractors into an eastern Chinese city to block traffic in protest, a Hong Kong-based rights group reported Wednesday.

64.   Few eastern cities can match Dresden on that count.

65.   Falun Gong said police in an eastern Chinese city have gang-raped detained female followers of the group, but a police official on Monday denied the claim.

66.   Further talks were to have been held Wednesday in Osijek, an eastern Croatian city on the separation line.

67.   Government troops launched an air and land attack against Kurdish rebels in the mountains of this eastern city, a news agency reported Friday.

68.   His father, brother and sister visited the Qingchun Hospital in eastern Hangzhou city on Tuesday and found Chen immobilized, his face covered in cuts.

69.   His men last month overwhelmed badly equipped and demoralized Zairian troops and seized control of Goma, Bukavu and Uvira, key eastern cities.

70.   He was on his way to a hospital in this eastern French city.