81.   Italian police believe there are thousands of companies financed by Russian mafia money in the northeastern region of Venezia alone.

82.   Manufacturing activity in the northeastern United States region flattened in March, according to a report released Thursday.

83.   Newspapers also reported that Algerian security forces killed two Islamic extremists Wednesday night near Draa Bin Khedda in the northeastern Kabylie region.

84.   Nearly a dozen insurgent groups are waging bitter campaigns for autonomy and secession in the sprawling northeastern region, which shares borders with Bangladesh, Tibet and Burma.

85.   Other newspapers reported that government forces killed four extremists Thursday in Mizrana forest in the northeastern Berber region of Kabylie.

86.   Other voting areas are mainly in southeastern Chittagong, eastern Comilla and northeastern Sylhet regions.

87.   Previous bids to resolve the conflict ended in failure and led to more bloodshed with the LTTE calling the shots in the northeastern regions.

88.   Several long-distance trains connecting the northeastern region to the rest of the country have either been suspended or rescheduled.

89.   She was buried Wednesday in her village of Siniavoda in the northeastern region of Razgrad, Bulgarian radio announced.

90.   Support for the HDZ was weakest in the northeastern region of Bosnia, where Croats did not fight Moslems even during the Moslem-Croat war.