61.  Prodi met with Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, who is visiting the EU to bolster support for peace efforts back home.

62.  Putin called a Kremlin meeting in February to draw up a program of bolstering state support for sports.

63.  Security sources in southern Lebanon said Israel has tried to bolster support by raising SLA front-line pay as well as offering medical services and jobs in Israel.

64.  Serb officials called the claim anti-Serb propaganda and sought to bolster support among Serbs ahead of negotiations on the future of the Serb province.

65.  Some analysts questioned why Perry included Ankara in his tour to bolster support at a time of a U.S. military buildup against Iraq in the region.

66.  Skuratov never denied it was him in the tape, and the tape only bolstered his support.

67.  The Israelis, meanwhile, are also seeking to bolster international support for their position.

68.  The four-day international conference, which opened Friday, aims to bolster anti-euthanasia support in the Netherlands and also combat its spread around the world.

69.  The gifts were the subject of a hearing Tuesday intended to bolster support for legislation that would change the rules governing gifts to presidents.

70.  The informal meeting took place instead of a formal emergency meeting of Arab League foreign ministers aimed at bolstering support for the Palestinians.