71.   A senior Japanese Defense Agency official visited Moscow for the first time last November to attend a security forum involving officials from Japan, Russia and the United States.

72.   A senior U.S. official on Wednesday visited hill tribe minorities sheltering in Cambodia who fled alleged persecution in Vietnam last year, U.S. officials said.

73.   A U.N. official visited the north and held discussions with Tamil rebels on the food shortages, rebel radio said on Sunday.

74.   A U.S. consular official visited them Monday.

75.   A U.S. embassy official said that a consular official would visit those arrested as soon as possible.

76.   A second anti-government general strike in one week paralyzed Dhaka on Wednesday, as a U.S. official visited Bangladesh to discuss its fledgling democracy.

77.   A senior Saudi intelligence official visited Aden on Monday, but no details of the meeting were made public.

78.   A United Nations official visited razed villages and refugee encampments Saturday and had harsh words for the Serbs afterward.

79.   A U.S. Embassy official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said a consular official would visit them in custody as soon as possible.

80.   A U.S. Embassy official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that a consular official would visit the detained cultists as soon as possible.