71.   Indian officials said they hoped an agreement on the test ban treaty might clear the way for a proposed visit by Clinton this year.

72.   Indian officials said, as they have every day for weeks, that it was not primarily Islamic militants but Pakistani soldiers who have occupied Indian territory.

73.   Indian officials say that the United States is hardly persuasive in demanding that India adhere to a treaty that the U.S. Senate failed to ratify last fall.

74.   Indian officials stress, however, that the land claims are about righting wrongs that are centuries old.

75.   Indian officials vowed not to be pushed off course by the sanctions, but Indian financial markets appeared less confident.

76.   Indian officials also believe that China has conducted at least one test of a Pakistani warhead at the Lop Nor test range in western China.

77.   Indian officials also visited Washington, and Secretary of State Colin Powell went to both nuclear-armed countries to call for peace.

78.   Indian officials contend that such steps were needed to stop terrorists operating in the valley from communicating with one another.

79.   Indian officials have threatened to take military action if Pakistan does not satisfy their demands.

80.   Indian officials said they would be carefully analyzing the tone of a speech by Musharraf.