61.   Couturier Yves Saint-Laurent, theatre director Peter Brook and former resistance leader Andre Dewavrin were among those awarded or promoted in the French Legion of Honour Sunday.

62.   Demonstrators demanded to see US President Bill Clinton or Secretary of State Warren Christopher to seek help in getting the release of East Timorese resistance leader Xanana Gusmao.

63.   Demonstrators demanded to see US President Bill Clinton or Secretary of State Warren Christopher to seek their help in getting the release of East Timor resistance leader Xanana Gusmao.

64.   East Timorese enthusiastically completed their final step to long-awaited nationhood when they turned out in droves to elect resistance leader Xanana Gusmao president on Sunday.

65.   The Revolutionary Front for Independent East Timor Sunday contested the decision of a resistance leader to hold direct negotiations with the Indonesian military.

66.   The UN chief meets here Tuesday with exiled Timorese resistance leader Jose Ramos Horta after signalling determination to progress towards finding a political solution for East Timor.

67.   Karzai spoke bitterly of the Arab fighters of al-Qaeda, accusing them of assassinating resistance leader Mohammad Shah Massoud in September, just before the war began.

68.   Muttaqi said the Tajik resistance leaders arrived in Kandahar as guests of the UN but he was not aware Monday whether they were still in the city.

69.   Resistance leaders who once made common cause against the Soviets turned on each other over the next four years.

70.   The East Timorese resistance leader told a press conference that a group had been set up to target him.