61.   The afternoon announcement by the Bogside Residents Group was the last in a series of concessions by both Catholics and Protestants that diffused a potentially explosive situation in Londonderry.

62.   The departures resolved a potentially explosive situation for China following whirlwind negotiations thought to have involved officials from at least five countries.

63.   The foreign ministers of the Arab League are due to hold an extraordinary meeting in Cairo on Thursday on the explosive situation in the Palestinian territories.

64.   The north, where huge camps of displaced Burundians and Rwandan refugees add to an already explosive situation, has been a particular target.

65.   The meeting, one of the regular encounters between NATO and UN leaders, has taken on greater significance because of the explosive current situation in Bosnia.