71.   Secretary-General Kofi Annan is recommending that the Security Council extend the U.N. peacekeeping force in Angola until the end of June and before turning it into an observer mission.

72.   Schori arrived in Harare Sunday to head the European observer mission.

73.   South Africa President Thabo Mbeki said Wednesday he would have to consider the findings of observer missions before commenting.

74.   Shevardnadze praised an ensuing U.N. resolution prolonging the U.N. observer mission in Abkhazia and laying out guidelines for further negotiations.

75.   Some of the route of the observer mission touches on territory held by the Kosovo Liberation Army.

76.   South African observer mission declared the election legitimate.

77.   South African President Thabo Mbeki said he would await the findings of observer missions, even though some had been barred from the country during the vote.

78.   South African President Thabo Mbeki said Wednesday he would have to consider the findings of observer missions before commenting on the election.

79.   Some African observer mission, however, insisted the election was valid.

80.   Sources in the U.N. military observer mission Monday said thousands are threatened because of acute shortages of food and medicine in the southeastern port city of Greenville.