71.   A congressional panel approved a resolution Wednesday urging the US administration to end a longstanding restriction and allow Taiwanese President Lee Teng-hui to visit the United States.

72.   A constitutional panel has approved a bill allowing President Alberto Fujimori to run for a third consecutive term in office, sparking a heated controversy, officials said.

73.   Backing the White House, a key Senate panel approved a new global rubber pact aimed at stabilizing the international price and supply of rubber.

74.   But it received new life recently when it was approved by a parliamentary panel attached to the human resource development ministry.

75.   The panel approved the selection of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. chairman Yotaro Iidam as chief of the forum.

76.   Separately, an FDA advisory panel approved another protease inhibitor drug for AIDS made by Merck, indinavir sulfate, to be marketed as Crixivan.