71.   Despite these early troubles, Western governments largely kept faith with the new government, promising large amounts of economic aid in return for major reforms.

72.   Fighting Islamic extremism and drug trafficking has become the highest priority for both Central Asian and Western governments.

73.   For frustrated Western governments divided in increasing bitterness over how to handle the Balkan crisis, any forward progress would be greeted with relief.

74.   For most Western governments, this choice was the lesser of two evils.

75.   For the last two days, Congolese officials had insisted that Kabila was alive, even while some African and Western governments were saying that he had died.

76.   Foreign Minister Andrzej Olechowski, an ally of Walesa who is popular with Western governments, is formally on leave.

77.   For Western governments, and particularly the United States, much is at stake.

78.   Given the stakes, senior Western diplomats and economists expect the Russian president, Boris Yeltsin, to move to assuage Western governments disturbed by the Chechnya war.

79.   Given the reluctance of western governments to face the messiness of ground warfare in mountainous terrain, military aid to Montenegro would presumably take the form of air support.

80.   He says the United Nations, Western governments and NATO have been too slow and timid in their response.