71.   A surge in political and religious violence in recent weeks has killed dozens of people.

72.   After an underground flood killed dozens of tin miners in July in the southern Guangxi region, mine bosses and local officials tried to suppress news of the disaster.

73.   Among those released, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said, were five Palestinians involved in attacks that killed dozens of Israelis and five U.S. citizens.

74.   An Afghan official said the trucks were bringing tribal leaders loyal to the new government to the capital and that dozens were killed.

75.   An epidemic of meningitis has killed dozens in southern Haiti this year.

76.   Also Saturday, a NATO missile struck a civilian bus crossing a bridge in Kosovo, killing dozens of people, news reports and witnesses said.

77.   Anti-independence leaders, some accused of killing dozens of civilians and attacking U.N. personnel, view him as a thorn in their side.

78.   Another Rwandan refugee family on the road home said rebels had killed dozens of people and buried the bodies in the forest.

79.   Arafat sees Hamas participation as weakening his staunchest opposition and disarming a militant force which has complicated the peace process by killing dozens of Israelis in recent years.

80.   Anti-independence militiamen have been blamed for much of the violence, killing dozens of civilians and attacking or threatening U.N. personnel preparing for the ballot.