71.   The attack came on the eve of a major Kremlin policy meeting that Yeltsin said would be devoted to finding a way to end the war.

72.   The attack came only hours after rebels killed an engineer riding in a helicopter sent to repair earlier damage to the duct.

73.   The attack came two months after a suicide bombing at a church frequented by Americans in Islamabad, which killed five.

74.   The attack never came.

75.   The attack Thursday came as a military cargo plane left the airport ferrying al-Qaida and Taliban prisoners to a U.S. base in Cuba.

76.   The attacks came amid initial attempts to open talks between the two sides based on recommendations by an international committee headed by former U.S. Sen. George Mitchell of Maine.

77.   The attacks came as the trial of two men accused of killing nine German tourists and an Egyptian driver last month opened Monday in a military court in Cairo.

78.   The attacks came at a time when the U.S. economy was already weakening and the stock market still in a bear market.

79.   The attacks came at the end of a long week for Richardson, the Energy Department and the Los Alamos laboratory.

80.   The attacks came hours after Palestinians fired a pair of rockets into an Israeli town, wounding a baby and a child.