61.   After months of informal negotiations, Panama and the United States will begin talks later in July on establishing a regional anti-drug center, the Panamanian government announced Tuesday.

62.   Anti-government groups have called on their Shiite followers to boycott the holiday in this Gulf nation, a key U.S. Navy base and a regional financial center.

63.   Bahrain, an archipelago in the central Gulf, is a key U.S. Navy base and a major regional financial center.

64.   Bahrain, an archipelago in the central Gulf, is home to a key U.S. Navy base and is a major regional financial center.

65.   Australian Financial Markets Association chairman Michael Hawker also warned Australia risked being left behind in attracting global organizations to move their regional centers to Australia.

66.   Blair endorsed plans to set up a regional center there providing training for African peacekeeping missions and promised to lobby for international support for the project.

67.   Both are small, resource-scarce territories which serve as regional centers for financial markets and services.

68.   Bolivia would serve as the regional center for Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay.

69.   Businessmen in Cotabato city, a southern regional center, had threatened to go on strike if the government did not take stronger action against the abductions.

70.   Bunia is a regional trading center, notably for gold which was exported worldwide via air.