61.  With the possibility of American military action drawing closer, Primakov Friday made a bid for more time.

62.  Opposition fighters hope the American action will allow them to advance on the capital.

63.  American actions will have to be defended and that defense may be the blood of our armed services personnel.

64.  An outlawed communist group in southern India received a poor response Monday to their call for a strike to protest American military action in Afghanistan, police said.

65.  Bahrain has not made an official declaration, but one government-guided newspaper criticized the American action.

66.  Bahrain has not made an official declaration, but one of its government-guided newspapers, the Gulf Daily News, has criticized the American action.

67.  BAT said it was hard to quantify the ultimate impact of the American legal actions, however.

68.  Britain has backed the American action.

69.  British planes are supporting the American action by providing refueling and reconnaissance.

70.  But diplomats said the American action in launching attacks without council approval complicated the issue and widened differences in various approaches to dealing with Saddam Hussein.