71.   The Russian authorities have expressed concern at the mounting wave of racist attacks.

72.   The report also criticized European Union governments for not controlling their police forces and thus allowing racist attacks and persecution to go unchecked.

73.   The three have a string of previous convictions for racist attacks and theft.

74.   Their motive was not immediately clear but police said the use of baseball bats may hint at a racist attack.

75.   Three people accused of racist attacks here last month will be tried in July on charges of public disorder and aggravated assault, judicial sources said Thursday.

76.   Italian youths targeted Black African beach vendors and a Jewish author in three separate racist attacks, judicial officials said here Thursday.

77.   Police had not ruled out the possibility that it was a racist attack.

78.   Police said Sunday that four gypsies killed overnight in an explosion could have been the victims of a racist attack.

79.   Racist attacks have increased in Italy in recent years, with the perpetrators just as likely to be non-politically motivated youngsters as skinheads with overt neo-Nazi sympathies.

80.   Racist attacks occur regularly in Moscow and other large Russian cities, with Africans and people from the Caucasus region among those most often victimised.