61.   After weeks of silence on the subject, Rubin said a strong dollar is in the national interest, Bridge news service reported.

62.   Agents of the Tokyo Public Prosecutors Office also searched the home of former President Hideo Sakamaki, Jiji Press news service reported.

63.   Also bolstering bonds was report on Reuters news service that Fed Gov. Lawrence Lindsey was advocating further cuts in bank borrowing rates.

64.   Business leaders were taken by surprise at the news, Kyodo news service reported.

65.   But MCI remains an equity investor in News Corp. Internet, which will be developing a competing on-line news service.

66.   But on Friday he wrote at length about it in his daily column that appears on Thestreet.com, a financial news service in which he is a co-founder.

67.   But people familiar with the company said that Murdoch believed he could gain distribution for his news service, regardless of whether Time Warner owned CNN.

68.   But Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, in an interview with Reuters news service, indicated a resolution could come within a day.

69.   But with the advent of video cameras, the Internet and various cable-television stations and news services, news stories about racial profiling abound.

70.   But, according to the Kyodo news service, none of the resolutions expresses an apology for wartime aggression.