61.   President Boris Yeltsin Saturday signed a revised adoption law that would tighten control over foreign adoptions and encourage more Russians to adopt children.

62.   Romanian officials later stopped foreign adoptions amid allegations of babies being sold.

63.   Russian lawmakers on Wednesday debated a bill that would tighten control over foreign adoptions but that appeared to be more liberal than previous versions.

64.   Romania resumed foreign adoptions in June after passing a law to ban privately arranged adoptions, which had been rife with corruption.

65.   Russia drafts rules restricting foreign adoptions.

66.   The bill would allow foreign adoption agencies to operate in Russia only after their country signs an agreement with Russia setting out the rules.

67.   The bill would allow foreign adoption agencies to operate in Russia only after their nation signs an agreement with Russia setting out the rules.

68.   The bill allows foreign adoption agencies to operate in Russia only after their country signs an agreement with Russia setting out the rules.

69.   The lower house of Russian parliament adopted a law Friday prohibiting commercial agencies from dealing in adoptions and liberalizing the categories of children eligible for foreign adoption.

70.   The government last year banned private agencies from being involved in foreign adoptions because of problems that included solicitation of babies from destitute people.