71.   The trip had drawn the ire of the State Department, which has severed diplomatic ties with Iraq since the Persian Gulf War.

72.   The United States also agreed to low-level diplomatic ties with North Korea.

73.   The United States therefore has no formal diplomatic ties with Taiwan.

74.   The United States stepped up political pressure on the Sudan, threatening to cut off diplomatic ties if bin Laden was not expelled.

75.   These are opportune occasions for making plain that Burma cannot normalize trade and diplomatic ties so long as it criminalizes its democratic opponents.

76.   Those who stood against the war are no less suited than those who served in Vietnam to establish diplomatic ties with Hanoi.

77.   Thousands of Cubans sought refuge on the base after diplomatic ties were severed, but hundreds more continued to live in Cuba while working on the base.

78.   Though the countries will maintain diplomatic ties, Egypt has been a key mediator in the peace process.

79.   Three senators who are decorated Vietnam veterans will soon wage a fight on the Senate floor to encourage President Clinton to establish full diplomatic ties with the Asian nation.

80.   U.S. diplomatic ties to Yugoslavia have been broken since the start of the NATO air campaign.