71.   Ross spent weeks in Israel and the Palestinian areas last fall to help broker an agreement on a Hebron troop pullback.

72.   Since then the United Nations has been trying to broker an agreement between the warring groups.

73.   Talbott is trying to find out if Moscow can play a meaningful role in brokering an agreement with Belgrade.

74.   The agreement was brokered afterward, she said, stressing that it was not a general cease-fire.

75.   The agreement was brokered by Iranian President Hashemi Rafsanjani during his visits to Kampala and Khartoum earlier this month.

76.   The agreement was brokered by Norway.

77.   The agreement was brokered by the IIHF after pressure from seven European hockey federations, a hockey federation spokesman said.

78.   The agreement was brokered Wednesday by Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic.

79.   The bloodshed came amid intensive U.S. efforts to broker an agreement on an Israeli troop pullback in the West Bank.

80.   The agreement was brokered by the congress, an alliance of Kurdish, Shiite Muslim and other opposition groups, al-Bayati said by telephone from London.