71.   He ran against Izetbegovic in an unsuccessful bid for the Bosnian presidency in the September elections.

72.   In August, Basque militants tried to mount an unsuccessful bid to kill King Juan Carlos in Palma de Majorca.

73.   Internazionale, who have already signed Paul Ince from United, had made an unsuccessful bid for Cantona earlier in the year.

74.   Alarcon also made two unsuccessful bids for the mayorship of Quito.

75.   Both Gorbachev and Lebed made unsuccessful bids to replace Yeltsin in the June-July presidential elections this year.

76.   Dole spent the day urging voters to help him maintain his former front-runner status he considers his due after two previous unsuccessful bids and his rise to Senate leader.

77.   The report also said that the Ecuadorans had made an unsuccessful bid to recapture Base Sur.

78.   The unsuccessful competing bid was submitted by the Cometa-SRM consortium, led by Spanish banking group Banco Bilbao Vizcaya.

79.   There was also a chance that the opposition, which has launched several previously unsuccessful bids to impeach Yeltsin, would back off again.

80.   There was no reaction from the Russian-backed opposition group, the provisional council, which launched an unsuccessful bid to capture Grozny last week.