71.   Photographers, TV cameramen and reporters engulfed the rebel delegation whenever they emerged from closed door sessions.

72.   Representatives of the Zairean government and Mobutu met a rebel delegation earlier this month in four days of preparatory talks at a secret venue outside Pretoria.

73.   Russia had angrily protested that a Chechen rebel delegation earlier attended a Council of Europe committee hearing on human rights violations in the Caucasus republic.

74.   The Chechen rebel delegation to peace talks with the Russians was targeted Tuesday by a series of bombings in Chechnya.

75.   The peace message was also driven home at a meeting in Pretoria with Burundian rebel delegations.