91.  The upper house, the Federation Council, was considering a similar appeal Wednesday.

92.  Turkey had made similar appeals in the past.

93.  Vollebaek was sending a similar appeal to ethnic Albanian leaders in the breakaway Kosovo province of Yugoslavia.

94.  He said other rights groups had also made similar appeals.

95.  He made a similar appeal for the Bosnian Croat Dario Kordic, said to be living in Zagreb, and the Croat general Ivica Rajic.

96.  In Bonn, German Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel made a similar appeal late Tuesday in an Urdu-language broadcast over the German international radio Deutsche Welle.

97.  In the past, the Supreme Court has rejected similar appeals by families of perpetrators of suicide attacks, against the destruction of their homes.

98.  In Washington, the State Department issued a similar appeal for an end to the fighting.

99.  A fundamentalist lawyer, Abdel Halim Ramadan, has made a similar appeal to block the military trial, which a Cairo court will hear on Sunday.

100.  A similar appeal was issued by opposition leader Ranil Wickremesinghe.