71.   African countries said immediately it was impossible to pay two-thirds of the cost.

72.   Also Saturday, Episcopalian prison ministers from across the country said the execution made the time ripe for a moratorium on the death penalty.

73.   All three Baltic countries say they are preparing to send troops to Kosovo to take part in peacekeeping operations.

74.   All three countries say they stayed away from the coalition because they favored an Arab solution.

75.   Although many countries have said they would agree to any of the four, some have said certain candidates are unacceptable, Rossier said.

76.   An Irish compromise would ban whaling everywhere except along coastlines, but most anti-whaling countries say the proposal lacks details.

77.   Apart from the United States, several European countries say their militaries are overstretched in the Balkans trying to keep the peace in Bosnia, Kosovo and Macedonia.

78.   Asian countries say the West unfairly seeks to apply its rights standards to other cultures.

79.   At the time of the Russian troop withdrawal, western countries said they expected to find mass graves.

80.   At first, most countries said Chechnya was an internal Russian affair.