71.   Fearing an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in the United States, a national pork producers group announced Thursday it has canceled its annual convention.

72.   Holtzbrinck publishing group announced Wednesday it was taking a majority stake in Macmillan Limited, the British holding company of the Macmillan international publishing group.

73.   Hours earlier the group announced that Israeli troops had killed one of its fighters in southern Lebanon.

74.   Hours earlier the group announced that Israeli troops had killed one of its fighters.

75.   However, a radical Islamic group announced last year it would bomb foreign schools.

76.   However, Maori groups announced they had filed an appeal on Friday.

77.   Hours earlier, the group announced that Israeli troops had killed one of its fighters.

78.   However, the smaller Islamic Jihad group announced Thursday that it would no longer abide by a truce.

79.   In a rare gesture, the armed Basque separatist group ETA announced Thursday a halt to attacks on prison officials.

80.   In a statement released at their Paris headquarters, the aid group announced it was suspending operations in northwestern Rwanda.