71.   Organizers said their discussions focused on upcoming elections.

72.   Political discussions focus on who is up and who is down in the Kremlin hierarchy.

73.   Sandberg described the channel as a televised chat room, where the discussion would focus mainly on program content.

74.   Schroeder met for about an hour with Austrian Chancellor Wolfgang Schuessel, and the German leader said afterward that their discussions focused on common interests rather than differences.

75.   So far, discussions have focussed on criteria for operators and the fees operators have to pay before they are permitted to join the cooperatives.

76.   Solana said the discussion focused on European security and NATO expansion as well as on regional issues.

77.   The annual Asia-Pacific Roundtable discussions focus on prevailing and probable security issues in the region.

78.   The closed-door discussions presumably focused on the situation around Sarajevo as well as an overall peace plan tentatively accepted by the warring sides.

79.   The discussions focused on negotiations underway on how to finance the EU after the planned admission of poor eastern and central European countries which will require development aid.

80.   The discussions focused on the possibility of sharing such functions as printing and distribution, officials from both newspapers said.