61.   In the early hours of Thursday, most Kuwaitis were glued to their television sets as news of the first U.S. military strikes came in.

62.   Israeli military officials said on condition of anonymity that the strikes came in retaliation for recent mortar shell attacks on Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip.

63.   Meir said the missile strike came in response to recent attacks on Israelis.

64.   More strikes could come to render the systems harmless, he said.

65.   The airport strike comes amid a wave of public sector labor actions over the last three weeks.

66.   The Clinton administration said Friday that strikes would come within two weeks unless Milosevic meets all U.N. demands in halting his assault on ethnic Albanians.

67.   The Israeli missile strike came a day after a Palestinian suicide bomber killed two Israeli soldiers outside a northern train station in an attack claimed by Islamic Jihad.

68.   The Israeli strikes came while U.S. Sen. Bob Kerrey was visiting southern Lebanon in the first visit from a high-ranking American official in more than a decade.

69.   The first Israeli strike came Saturday night, targeting the town of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.

70.   The heaviest strikes yet came Wednesday.