61.   The vote follows two months of political turmoil.

62.   The vote will follow a three-day debate beginning Tuesday.

63.   The vote followed days of intense lobbying.

64.   The vote followed months of wrangling between the two main political coalitions over its scope.

65.   The vote followed more than two hours of debate but the outcome was assured from the beginning.

66.   The vote followed similar action by Seagram shareholders in Montreal earlier in the day.

67.   The vote followed two election debacles which wiped out the Conservatives from local authorities in Scotland last month, and virtually obliterated them in England and Wales last week.

68.   The vote followed weeks of public sniping between Parks and Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti.

69.   The vote follows a statement by President Jacques Chirac, read to Parliament Tuesday, urging lawmakers to support his pro-European policies.

70.   The vote follows growing international criticism that Japanese inaction on sex tourism and Internet child pornography was allowing the crimes to persist at home and abroad.