61.   The action by the French authorities did not appear to be linked to the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

62.   The British government seems to believe he is a British national, but French authorities had earlier suggested he may be Sri Lankan.

63.   The broadcast detailed the murder of four Roman Catholic priests by Algerian Muslim terrorists in retaliation for French authorities killing four hijackers that month.

64.   The chauffeur, who was killed instantly, was far over the legal driving limit for alcohol, French authorities said a day after the accident.

65.   The article added that French authorities were attempting to make a case against him, charging that he illegally overstayed his eight-day tourist visa.

66.   The FBI director said his agency passed the information onto French authorities.

67.   The French authorities have appointed a policeman, a schoolteacher and a local bureaucrat to run the town until the financial fog clears.

68.   The French authorities said on Thursday that they had arrested an Algerian ringleader of a militant Islamic group behind a wave of terrorist bombings that began last summer.

69.   The French authorities sought to confuse protesters with misleading statements about when the shipment left the treatment depot there.

70.   The French authorities later determined that he was legally drunk at the time of the accident and had been taking antidepressant drugs.