71.  Goals from star striker Tuen de Nooijer, Karel Klaver and Piet Hein Geeris allowed Netherlands sail past South Africa while conserving energy for the crucial semifinals.

72.  Galatasaray pinned two defenders on star striker Gabriel Batistuta, often forcing the Argentine to seek space on the wings.

73.  Goals from star striker Teun de Nooijer, Karel Klaver and Piet Hein Geeris allowed Netherlands to sail past South Africa while conserving energy for the crucial semifinals.

74.  He could team up in the attack with Toni Polster, the star striker who plays for Cologne in Germany.

75.  He took a gamble by taking off star striker Wynalda and playmaker Claudio Reyna.

76.  He will have to do it without star striker Alessandro Del Piero, who is out for the rest of the season with damaged knee ligaments.

77.  Hid comments contradicted earlier reports in Brazilian newspapers, which quoted the star striker as saying that he never suffered from convulsions.

78.  Highly favored Yugoslavia, led by star striker Predrag Mijatovic, meets injury-stricken Iran in their opening Group F game Sunday.

79.  However, the Netherlands will be without their star striker, Dennis Bergkamp.

80.  If that star striker pairing can share the field, it can lift Inter.