61.   Opening the way for a resumption of U.S. economic assistance, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell said Tuesday Yugoslavia has met American criteria for cooperating with the court.

62.   Peter Colony, spokesman for the British delegation, said the EU did not want to link economic assistance with the past.

63.   Additionally, Spain, Portugal, Greece and Ireland want assurances that special economic assistance for them will not be lost to newcomers who are poorer than they are.

64.   Aides said the aid to Israel was economic assistance that can be used for security items like police.

65.   And, Guyanese President Cheddi Jagan said the move toward hemispheric free trade must be supplemented by a sharp increase in economic assistance for poor countries such as Guyana.

66.   At a news conference Sunday in Islamabad, Larson said Washington would encourage bilateral donor nations to give economic assistance to Pakistan to help ease its debt burden.

67.   Being on the list prevents hunger-stricken North Korea from receiving U.S. economic assistance.

68.   Brown was leading a delegation of business and government officials sent to Bosnia to build support for trade ties and economic assistance.

69.   But despite the criticism and strains, officials predict the IMF will continue to remain a global source of economic assistance.

70.   But he said that Russia, which has struggled economically itself since the collapse of the Soviet Union, could not give any other free economic assistance.