61.   Bosnian Serb Prime Minister Milorad Dodik won a ringing endorsement and a promise of millions of dollars in aid Tuesday from the European Union for his new moderate administration.

62.   Defense Minister Igor Sergeyev gave a ringing endorsement Tuesday to the goal of slashing Russian and American nuclear arsenals and called for a prompt ratification of START II.

63.   Despite the expression of support, hammered out in a four-hour private session Monday, the declaration was far from a ringing endorsement.

64.   Hardly a ringing endorsement.

65.   In Bonn, Kohl called the results a ringing endorsement of his government and said he saw no need for a Cabinet shuffle.

66.   In Washington, GOP criticism focused on Gore, although, outside a luncheon of Senate Republicans, there was no ringing endorsement of the path Bush is on.

67.   Last week, Shas party leader Arieh Deri, who was recently convicted of fraud, gave Netanyahu a ringing personal endorsement.

68.   Lady Thatcher, after years of carping about Major, gave him a ringing endorsement on Friday.

69.   Less than a ringing endorsement, as the paper itself noted.

70.   Nemtsov gave Yeltsin a ringing endorsement in his race for re-election at the ceremony.