71.   Deputy Housing Minister Meir Porush said he recognized the sensitivity of the project but defended the plan as necessary to renewing tourist interest in the Jewish Quarter.

72.   Environmentalists will not have to turn their attention to defending the plan from attack in both Congress and in the new administration, added Pope.

73.   Environmentalists will now have to turn their attention to defending the plan from attack in both Congress and in the new administration, added Pope.

74.   French Defense Minister Charles Millon defended the plan.

75.   He defended his plans to curb the freedom to demonstrate and to ban foreign contributions to Hong Kong political parties.

76.   Japan defended its plans to expand its whaling program after the anti-whaling nations presented their petition.

77.   Juppe defended his plan to reform the debt-ridden social security system during a Sunday night television interview, a plan that includes additional taxes.

78.   John DiIulio, head of the White House Office on Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, has been defending the plan to religious and other groups.

79.   Kulikov defended his plan in an interview published Wednesday in the newspaper.

80.   Lebed hotly defended his plan.