61.   At midday, gunfire around the hospital had slowed to a tense standoff as a helicopter hovered overhead.

62.   Bosnian Serbs engaged in a tense standoff with the United Nations on a key Sarajevo road Friday, and their leader warned of worse times to come.

63.   Bush had refused to talk to his Chinese counterpart during the tense standoff over a U.S. surveillance plane that crashed last spring.

64.   But Beijing appears reluctant to be drawn into the tense standoff between its long-time fellow Communist regime in the North and its new trading partner in the South.

65.   But fuel was spent on lighting and air conditioning during the tense standoff in Algeria, where Muslim extremists are trying to topple the military-backed government.

66.   But a defiant Milosevic rejected a warrant in a tense standoff with authorities trying to bring him to justice.

67.   But in the tense standoff, the crowd ignored him, chanting and waving Palestinian flags.

68.   But Milosevic rejected a warrant in a tense standoff with authorities trying to bring him to justice.

69.   Canada released a Spanish trawler on Wednesday, defusing a tense diplomatic standoff with the European Union over fishing rights in international waters in the North Atlantic.

70.   China freed the crew after a tense standoff, but has not returned the plane.