71.   Palestinian autonomy leader Yasser Arafat met Saturday with a delegation of senior CIA officials who arrived here to boost security measures against Muslim militants, Palestinian sources said.

72.   Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat met Saturday with senior CIA officials trying to increase security measures against Muslim militants, Palestinian sources said.

73.   Palestinian security forces recently arrested a group of militants backed by Islamic and Arab countries who had planned attacks on Israelis, a Palestinian source said Thursday.

74.   Palestinian sources and Israeli radio reports said the slain Palestinians were brothers Imad and Adel Awadallah, leading figures in the Hamas military wing, Izzedine al Qassam.

75.   Palestinian sources confirmed the arrests.

76.   Palestinian sources in Jenin said Israel soldiers and security agents raided five villages and detained supporters of the militant Islamic Jihad and Hamas groups.

77.   Palestinian sources said he detained elsewhere in the city, not at the site of the shootout.

78.   Palestinian sources said Israeli security forces also searched the office of a freelance journalist in the West Bank town of Bethlehem suspecting a connection between the two.

79.   Palestinian sources said Peres and Arafat would meet again this week in Egypt.

80.   Palestinian sources said PLO leader Yasser Arafat issued the ban Monday before leaving for Brussels for three days of negotiations with Israel and the international donors.