71.   He said domestic and international toll call services were disrupted during the six-day strike.

72.   He criticised the pickets for disrupting consular services, saying they should have requested a meeting.

73.   He was not seriously injured, but the incident disrupted service on one of the subway lines temporarily.

74.   Heavy rain lashed wide areas of southern and western Japan Tuesday for a fifth consecutive day, disrupting railway service and swelling rivers.

75.   Heavy rains caused flooding and mudslides killed at least one person, damaged dozens of homes and disrupted train service, police said Wednesday.

76.   Heavy rains also disrupted rail services and thousands of passengers were stranded at two central Bombay stations following cancellations of trains.

77.   Hurricane Michael slammed into southern Newfoundland late Thursday, knocking down power lines, disrupting ferry service and damaging homes.

78.   In addition, the outage disrupted cell phone service as far away as Binghamton by knocking out incoming and outgoing calls for people served by Bell Atlantic Mobile.

79.   In Seoul, subway service was disrupted during busy commuting hours when water submerged tracks.

80.   In the Washington area, a power outage that led to failure of backup systems disrupted cellular telephone service to thousands of Cingular Wireless customers early Thursday.