71.   The United States recognized the new ruler.

72.   They warned that many, fearing reprisals from their old enemies and new rulers, would dig up bodies of their dead relatives to take with them.

73.   Those plans were shelved, however, when the new rulers dragged former communist president Najibullah from a U.N. compound and hanged him.

74.   Thousands of Ashanti people crowded the colonial-style Manhyia palace grounds in pouring rain early Tuesday as tribal drums proclaimed the new ruler of the Ashanti kingdom.

75.   Yet the new rulers appeared in firm control Saturday in the capital, Moroni, where life slowly returned to normal.

76.   He claimed that warring Afghan factions were willing to sit together and accept the former king as the new ruler of the country.

77.   In Kabul, the new Moslem rulers ordered public transport to halt five times a day to allow people to report to mosques for prayers.

78.   Iran, he added, was keen to start making use of the airport in Herat but the new Afghan rulers were suspicious of its motives.

79.   A bloody battle raged into the early hours of Thursday, with local residents taking advantage of the attack to strike at their new fundamentalist rulers, they said.

80.   Bahrain, Oman and Kuwait already have floors while Qatar is setting up a bourse after it was approved by the new ruler this year.