61.   A U.S. diplomat has failed to make progress in getting North Korea to exchange liaison offices with Washington, a South Korean official said Wednesday.

62.   A U.S.-led international consortium announced plans Thursday to open a liaison office at the North Korean nuclear reactor site at Kumho.

63.   A small delegation of North Korean diplomats is to arrive Wednesday to stake out a site for establishing a liaison office in Washington.

64.   A U.S. liaison office opened in Hanoi on Friday.

65.   A worried NATO shut its liaison office in the Bosnian Serb stronghold of Pale.

66.   A Tibetan Buddhist liaison office may be established as a first step, Taiwanese media reported.

67.   Allianz last year became one of the first insurers to receive permission from the Reserve Bank of India to open a liaison office.

68.   Already, the Koreas have stopped propaganda broadcasts to each other and agreed to reopen border liaison offices.

69.   Afterward, it intends to present a petition to the local Chinese liaison office, said Kan Hung-cheung, a Falun Gong spokesman.

70.   Also Thursday, a hand grenade or bomb was lobbed into an Israeli-Palestinian liaison office near the Jewish settlement of Newe Dekalim in Gaza.