61.  District officials initially considered _ but abandoned _ the idea of release latches to avoid the possibility of tampering.

62.  DCF, which had fought vehemently against the bi-racial adoption, says it didn't have all the info it needed initially to make a decision.

63.  Diaz said the Dodgers initially listed him as a Dominican native on team rosters.

64.  Dibler talked with Gracey yesterday and said: "When RGraceyS saw it initially, he said he saw a punch being thrown.

65.  Dishearteningly, the Serbian public has initially rallied to Milosevic, as have traditional allies like Russia.

66.  Disturbingly, Yeltsin's top spokesman, Dmitri Yakushkin, was initially unaware that Russian troops had left Bosnia for Yugoslavia when he was asked about it earlier Friday.

67.  Digicash's system has one major disadvantage compared with credit card plans: Initially, at least, it is more expensive.

68.  Doctors at Beth Israel performed emergency bypass surgery and initially, the man appeared to be recovering well.

69.  Declines in Asian shares, capped by a 5.3 percent dip in Japan's Nikkei 225 Index, initially hurt the CAC 40.

70.  Doctors initially diagnosed phosgene gas, a chlorine gas developed in World War I, but later backed away from that.