71.   The USC says it has asked the SNM to join the other groups in the national interest to contribute to the common effort to seek a political solution.

72.   Opposition groups in exile had rejected the terms of the Constitution and called for a boycott.

73.   The government continued to be plagued by the activities of armed rebel groups in the north and east of the country.

74.   The annual gathering was on this occasion attended by supporters of far-right groups in Austria, Belgium, Germany and Italy.

75.   Al-Fatah was also seeking a rapprochement with Damascus-based radical Palestinian groups in the Palestine National Salvation Front, an anti-Arafat coalition.

76.   Human rights groups in Australia criticized the timing of the signing of the agreement, which took place less than a month after the East Timor massacre.

77.   The Democratic Party, the liberal opposition group in the white House of Assembly, declared that it would support a yes vote.

78.   A co-operation protocol was signed between Yeltsin and pro-reform groups in the Supreme Soviet before the Congress began.

79.   Opposition groups in Tehran and London accused government forces of stepping up attacks on Shia strongholds in the southern marshlands in mid-April.

80.   Ten groups in all were now specifically proscribed in Northern Ireland.