61.   The third earthquake this year hit a northeastern region of the Central Asian nation of Tajikistan, damaging houses but causing no deaths, an emergency official said Tuesday.

62.   The time has come for Catalonia to have its own international sports status separate from Spain, said the governing party of the northeastern region.

63.   The warm winter weather in the northeastern regions of the United States has slowed hotel business here.

64.   Thousands of monks and nuns inhabit these monasteries in the impoverished northeastern Moldova region, one of the most fervently religious corners of the Orthodox Christian world.

65.   Yussuf was appointed president of the northeastern region for three years at a meeting of elders and civic leaders.

66.   Five more LTTE guerrillas were killed in a separate confrontation with troops in the northeastern region of Weli Oya late Sunday, the military said.

67.   Greek parties have traditionally included members of the Moslem minority of Turkish origin who live in the northeastern region of Thrace.

68.   He is the son of the previous mufti of the northeastern Xanthia region.

69.   A Roman Catholic priest in the troubled northeastern region said LTTE supremo Velupillai Prabhakaran was under increased pressure to work out a settlement.

70.   Algerian newspapers also reported that an armed group on Tuesday morning attacked a police brigade at Boudjina, in the northeastern Kabylie region.