71.  Bush was represented at a luncheon Friday by Owens and one of his Colorado cabinet members, Larry Trujillo, who recently switched from Democrat to Republican.

72.  British newspapers have reported that other cabinet members have given the same warning to Blair in private.

73.  But Ariel Sharon, the Cabinet member most influential in dealings with the Palestinians, is in Washington, as are two other key members.

74.  Bush was rather more in evidence this week, appointing cabinet members, meeting Bill Clinton, Al Gore and Alan Greenspan, and so on.

75.  Bush will ask his Cabinet members and their staffers to coach.

76.  But behind the scenes Cabinet members and even the president were on the telephone trying to repair the breach.

77.  But Bush chose oil industry executive Dick Cheney, a former congressman and Bush cabinet member.

78.  But he has given no example of specific important changes, and the cabinet members he chose are deeply tied to the very system that inspired the malaise.

79.  But if true, they amount to a level of witness-tampering by a would-be Cabinet member worthy of prosecution.

80.  But it will be up to the new Cabinet members to break the political logjam that has blocked such efforts before.