61.   The government has prevented journalists from visiting for a year.

62.   The government has prevented journalists from visiting rebel-held areas, but many Tamils who fled to Vavuniya said they had seen people die of sicknesses and exhaustion.

63.   The government has prevented the media from reaching the war zone, so reporters have to rely on military and rebel statements.

64.   The government has prevented refugees from setting up tent cities in Belgrade and has urged them to go home to Kosovo, considered the cradle of Serb culture.

65.   The government prevented Ritter from working by denying his team the necessary escorts, and he left the country without completing his work.

66.   The government prevents journalists from traveling to the region.

67.   The Iranian government had prevented the film from being shown at the film festival, only to relent at the last minute.

68.   The ministers promised that their governments would prevent unrest and a possible military coup and demanded that the hostages be released and order restored in the army.

69.   The union, which the government prevented from going on strike last weekend by a court order, denies it ordered its members to stage a sick out.

70.   The Sudanese government prevented six opposition politicians from conference, an opposition spokesman said Thursday.