61.   The desert dirts, defenders say, represent nothing less than a revolution in mining technology that poses a threat to larger companies and the exchanges where they trade.

62.   Three Gorges Dam defenders say they will prevent the reservoir from becoming a catchment of lethal filth.

63.   Yet defenders say the cold shoulder is simply a misunderstanding.

64.   But human rights defenders say the government has barely scratched the surface.

65.   But defenders say it is needed to combat heavy export subsidies by foreign competitors while helping small producers and ordinary workers.

66.   Chechen defenders said they still controlled most of the city and were battling the Russians at the train station, about a mile from the palace.

67.   Defenders have said Pius XII did all he could to help Jews and other victims of the Holocaust.

68.   Defenders said the record showed slow but steady improvement, but critics say it was mediocre.

69.   Defenders say the practice is misunderstood, and that critics are judging a non-Western tradition by Western standards.

70.   Defenders said the record showed slow but steady improvement, but critics called it mediocre.