71.   No public birthday celebrations took place.

72.   North Korean officials prepare birthday celebrations for leader Kim Jong Il, urging a hunger-stricken population to rebuild their tattered economy.

73.   Nine partygoers who attended a birthday celebration in a Ural mountains village died after drinking lethal alcohol, a news agency reported Saturday.

74.   No official birthday celebration was planned.

75.   Palace officials had confirmed that Masako had earlier in the day sat out a private birthday celebration for her brother-in-law.

76.   President Bush interrupted his birthday celebrations Friday to talk on the phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin about Iraq, U.S. missile defense plans and other thorny issues.

77.   Police said they could not stop a birthday celebration, even if it was in honor of a murderer.

78.   President Nelson Mandela reminisced with fellow anti-apartheid veterans Saturday during the last in a series of birthday celebrations.

79.   Roy Jones Jr. will stage a boxing birthday celebration Saturday night, and an honored guest will be Shane Mosely.

80.   Saddam was not in Tikrit, site of the most elaborate of public birthday celebrations that took place all over Iraq.