61.  Hollings led an unsuccessful effort last week to block the rebate checks taxpayers are due to receive in coming weeks.

62.  Icahn, who had made three unsuccessful efforts to unseat the RJR board, wanted RJR to spin off its food holdings instead.

63.  In the meantime, a special U.S. envoy, Anthony Zinni, made three unsuccessful efforts to prod the two sides into putting the Tenet truce into effect.

64.  McAuliffe, who took the reins of the Democratic Party in February, said even unsuccessful efforts like this build up the party.

65.  Norwegian police had sent a name, which they spelled Natanael Kieckhoefer, to Interpol as part of unsuccessful efforts to identify him through international police channels.

66.  President Clinton met with Assad in Geneva last month in an unsuccessful effort to revive the negotiations.

67.  She kept the television on continually in a usually unsuccessful effort to block out her thoughts.

68.  That concern has grown in the face of unsuccessful White House efforts to persuade Russia not to provide missile and nuclear-power technology to Iran.

69.  The Congolese later departed for Mwanza, Tanzania, to talk with former Tanzania President Julius Nyerere about unsuccessful efforts to broker peace between Buyoya and Hutu rebels.

70.  Town is focal point of unsuccessful diplomatic efforts to settle the conflict in Kosovo.