71.  Even by the abject standards of Western diplomatic efforts in the former Yugoslavia, this amounted to an utter debacle.

72.  Eckhard said diplomatic efforts were continuing to find a solution to the crisis.

73.  Even now it undermines its own tentative diplomatic efforts with inconsistent messages.

74.  Experts noted a variety of reasons for continued U.S. involvement in the region, despite only partial successes and some failures in the decades of diplomatic effort.

75.  Fears that the country was lurching toward civil war prompted renewed diplomatic efforts to reach a settlement.

76.  France has moved closer to that position while Russia, which has sent envoys to Baghdad, and China have pressed for continued diplomatic efforts.

77.  Gore, who has suffered from falling opinion ratings at home because of campaign finance allegations, used his meeting with the press to advertise his diplomatic efforts.

78.  He intended to marry left and right, secular and religious, dove and hawk inside the government to obtain maximum backing for his diplomatic efforts.

79.  His editors tried desperately to win his release through publicly broadcast appeals to his captors and private diplomatic efforts in Islamabad and Washington.

80.  His position has been clear for at least a month, but Western governments have continued their diplomatic efforts.