61.  The new top officials of Tokyo and Osaka elected Sunday are both former television entertainers.

62.  The PRI was forced to lay off hundreds of its workers, and new officials campaigned against corruption.

63.  The report said the local Communist Party had recruited hundreds of new officials, militiamen and police in a bid to impose order and to help with poverty relief.

64.  A spokeswoman for the German embassy told AFP that Kinkel scheduled the visit as an opportunity to meet new Georgian officials appointed since presidential and parliamentary elections in November.

65.  A UNHCR mission had crossed over to Gisenyi Friday afternoon to discuss the issue of returnees with new RPF officials stationed there.

66.  Chancellor Helmut Kohl on Tuesday named a new official to head efforts to rebuild the economy of formerly communist eastern Germany.

67.  Clinton delayed his cabinet appointments after he recognized the need to match up team members and stressed that the new officials were picked because of their perfect fit.

68.  President Boris Yeltsin on Friday announced a new committee to restore Russian rule in Chechnya and appointed a new official, Nikolai Semenov, to supervise the process.

69.  The decree reportedly appointed new officials to the posts of Crimean security chief and head of interior forces in the autonomous republic.

70.  The decree reportedly appointed new officials to the posts of Crimean security chief and head of interior forces.