61.   Ministers were expected to take up the thorny questions of rising violence in Kosovo and the slow pace of peace efforts in Bosnia.

62.   Ministers were to take up the thorny questions of rising violence in Kosovo and the slow pace of peace efforts in Bosnia.

63.   Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin is heading to Turkmenistan to discuss the thorny question of gas exports from the former Soviet Central Asian nation, his office said Monday.

64.   Such an agreement would forestall for years the thorny question of what to do with the treaty when it bumps up against actual deployment of a U.S. missile shield.

65.   That has raised fears among public interest groups that Powell will shy away from addressing thorny new questions that arise in the context of merger reviews.

66.   The FCC also plans to address another thorny question raised by broadcasters, who want both their analog and digital signals carried by cable companies during the transition.

67.   The thorny question of control of Jerusalem is still to be dealt with in Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations.

68.   The thorny legal question of who should be held responsible for illicit material on the Internet first flared in France last year.

69.   The Western alliance supports Russian participation in that force but did not resolve the thorny question of how to coordinate with Russian troops and other non-NATO forces.

70.   They also disagreed about when bonds will be issued in euromoney and on the thorny question of what to call the new currency.