61.   Acting major league commissioner Bud Selig said the streak has become a means of mending damaged relations with baseball fans.

62.   Both Annan and Boutros-Ghali indirectly appealed to Washington to mend its relations with the world body.

63.   Britain meanwhile sought to mend battered relations with Israel following the public row over the police response to warnings of a heightened terrorist threat prior to the London bombings.

64.   The scandals involving Swiss politicians have left Switzerland increasingly isolated, and its top brass keen to mend relations with Jewish groups.

65.   US-China ties took a nosedive, but both sides recently agreed to mend relations.

66.   It took three years for the two countries to mend their relation after the incident.

67.   President Bill Clinton on Tuesday began his first official visit to Mexico, hoping to mend relations damaged over drug-trafficking and immigration.

68.   Sudan on Tuesday charged that Egypt had refused attempts to mend relations and accused Cairo of fabricating evidence against it following an assasination bid on President Hosni Mubarak.

69.   The pope is keen to mend relations with the Orthodox church so he can fulfil his long-standing ambition to visit Russia.

70.   The meeting between the former allies was the fifth in a year aimed at mending relations that have pushed the countries to the brink of war.