71.   The country is a multiparty democracy, it is stable and it is not divided by ethnic tension, Stith said.

72.   The enthusiasm has faded in many countries as many elected leaders have found themselves confounded by entrenched poverty, ethnic tensions and corruption.

73.   The officials are concerned that ethnic tension in Kosovo could spread to the former Yugoslav republic of Macedonia and even beyond, to Greece and Turkey.

74.   The pleaded with the governor and regents not to take any action that might increase ethnic tensions.

75.   The shooting was fraught with ethnic tension because Baz was Lebanese and the students were returning from a prayer vigil for the Lubavitcher rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson.

76.   The subsequent economic growth helped avoid ethnic tensions among Malays, Chinese, Indians and native tribes.

77.   The years that followed have sometimes been rife with ethnic tension, crime, and poverty.

78.   The U.N. refugee agency recently began a new program to return Rwandans home, after suspending it for two months because of rising ethnic tensions in Rwanda.

79.   Then Karadzic, whose forces have fanned ethnic tensions and been widely blamed as the aggressors in the war, complained of poor press coverage.

80.   They invariably ask for political asylum but come for many reasons, trying to escape poverty or the unyielding ethnic tensions and violence back home.