71.   No date has been fixed yet for the first reading.

72.   On Monday, the Knesset approved the first reading of a bill that would grant citizenship to the non-Jewish immediate relatives of immigrant soldiers.

73.   Premier Bernard Lord announced that a special session of the legislature will be held Saturday to start first reading on back-to-work legislation.

74.   Porat told Israel TV that he would set a date for a first reading of the bill should Netanyahu return from Washington with an agreement on a troop pullback.

75.   Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin told legislators the Duma must make the first move to withdraw the plan, given that it already passed the first reading in June.

76.   The amendments had passed a first reading but bogged down in subsequent negotiations.

77.   The City Council will present the curfew ordinance for first reading at its next meeting Thursday.

78.   The bill passed in a first reading this summer, but was then shelved as a committee headed by Finance Minister Yaakov Neeman tried to find a compromise.

79.   The bill will be introduced on first reading to the Provisional Legislative Council next Wednesday and will take take effect three months after its enactment.

80.   The bill passed a first reading in parliament in the summer, but has been frozen while the rival streams try to reach a compromise.