61.  A powerful ethnic group threatened Thursday to extend a strike that has virtually shut down Karachi for the past two days.

62.  A powerful Muslim fundamentalist group accused the government Monday of continuing to round up militants to investigate possible links with the Palestinian Hamas movement.

63.  A powerful Muslim fundamentalist group accused the government Monday of violating its own democratic pledges by rounding up militants to investigate possible links with the Palestinian Hamas movement.

64.  A powerful group representing Iranian university students also criticized the government for not actively trying to kill Rushdie.

65.  A powerful group representing university students issued a statement Thursday criticizing the government for not actively trying to kill Rushdie.

66.  A powerful Muslim fundamentalist group lashed out at the Jordanian government on Saturday for the visit of Israeli President Ezer Weizman.

67.  A spokesman for the Georgian State Security Service called the explosion a terrorist act against the Rescuer Corps, formerly part of the powerful Mkhedrioni paramilitary group.

68.  Alexander Ochorishvili, an aide to the leader of a powerful Georgian paramilitary group, was arrested Thursday in the bombing.

69.  An aide to the leader of a powerful Georgian paramilitary group was arrested Thursday in the bombing that slightly injured leader Eduard Shevardnadze earlier this week, prosecutors said.

70.  But a politically powerful ethnic group Muttaheda Qami Movement challenged the federal rule and demanded the provincial legislature restored.