61.   The two countries have recently improved ties by restoring diplomatic relations severed seven years ago.

62.   US President Bill Clinton and King Fahd discussed bilateral ties by telephone after US criticisms that Riyadh had foiled a US plan to arrest a suspected Lebanese terrorist.

63.   Japan and Australia on Monday agreed to invigorate economic and other ties by resuming talks at a ministerial committee suspended nearly five years ago after logistical problems.

64.   Last month, Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong said sections of the Malaysian media of souring bilateral ties by publishing what he called unfounded articles.

65.   Last May they further consolidated ties by setting up a private body grouping businessmen from the two countries.

66.   She knew she had to take the rubber for Switzerland because she and Rosset can still win the tie by winning the mixed doubles.