71.   In a bid to curb tribal violence, the government has issued a ban on firearms in the capital and other major towns.

72.   In a bid to curb the violence, the government issued a ban Tuesday on Yemenis carrying firearms in the streets of the capital and other major towns.

73.   In Copenhagen, Aarhus, Aalborg, Odense and other major towns -- where privatization also has begun -- city buses were at a standstill.

74.   In the last two years, the military has pushed the rebels out of major towns in the north and into the jungles.

75.   In the pipeline is the installation of additional access nodes in the various major towns in the State.

76.   In some cases, the British have also provided military backing to the struggling U.N. peacekeeping force protecting the capital and major towns.

77.   Israel is scheduled to withdraw from major West Bank towns by the end of the year.

78.   Israel has offered to negotiate a limited Israeli troop pullback from southern Lebanon, and to take proxy forces out of a major town in the area.

79.   It in turn called for broadening Palestinian autonomy by holding elections and withdrawing troops from major West Bank towns.

80.   It has set up National Disaster Headquarters in all major towns and cities and provided emergency crews with mobile hospital units.