61.   The EU jobs crisis persists despite an economic recovery.

62.   The impasse persists despite an Aristide promise to Clinton administration envoys last December that he would move quickly to resolve the issue.

63.   The open sale of hashish and marijuana persists despite regular police raids.

64.   The pain persisted despite medication and Mitterrand was put through a battery of tests the following month that revealed the cancer, Gubler said.

65.   The violence was part of a steady escalation in fighting in recent days that persisted despite a U.S.-brokered truce declared a months ago.

66.   The violence persisted despite local efforts to calm the tensions and a Saudi proposal to end the decades-old Israel-Arab conflict.

67.   Those biases persist despite information showing they are incorrect and are exaggerated by the news media, Sharansky said.

68.   Those areas are intensely cultivated and milkweed persists despite pesticide and weed-control programs, the report said.

69.   Those differences persist despite continued Iraqi defiance.

70.   Three security personnel and two guerrillas have been killed in ethnic fighting that has persisted despite efforts to restart peace talks, officials said Monday.