61.   PLO and Israeli negotiators began talks Tuesday in Cairo on bringing international observers to the West Bank and Gaza Strip to monitor Palestinian elections.

62.   PLO and Israeli negotiators began talks Tuesday on bringing international observers to the West Bank and Gaza Strip to monitor Palestinian elections.

63.   A delegation of the Council of Europe is also monitoring the elections.

64.   A European Union delegation visited Zimbabwe last week and said Mugabe heatedly rejected an EU request for international observers to monitor the elections.

65.   A spokesman for the human rights organization said his group will go ahead with plans to monitor the elections despite government objections.

66.   A team of representatives from Commonwealth countries, led by a former Australian prime minister, will monitor elections in Pakistan, a Commonwealth statement said Monday.

67.   A Yemeni foundation that monitored the elections, the Civic Democratic Initiatives Support Foundation, has said there were enough irregularities to question the fairness of the vote.

68.   After weeks of resistance, Belarus is inviting observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe to monitor presidential elections next month, officials said Wednesday.

69.   Carter said he knows Chavez well, having monitored elections in Venezuela on four occasions.

70.   Carter, who has monitored elections across the world, emphasizes that he is visiting China as a private citizen, not an envoy.