71.   The missile tests are to continue until next Saturday, Beijing said last week.

72.   The report came after Wu Po-hsiung, the spokesman for Taiwan President Lee Teng-hui, said the missile tests were destabilizing Taiwan-China relations.

73.   The results so far have been mixed with another key missile test scheduled for next month.

74.   The United States has a military base in Kwajalein, one of the Marshall Islands, that it uses to monitor space operations and missile tests.

75.   They are missile tests, not nuclear tests.

76.   They would be the second missile tests to be conducted by China in less than one month.

77.   U.S.-China relations have been deeply strained by a series of missile tests and live-fire military exercises the Chinese are staging near Taiwan.

78.   U.S. officials said that they were certain only that the missile test was successful, and the missile tested was similar or perhaps identical to the Korean Rodong missile.

79.   Washington must now try to divine what the missile test reveals about the power struggle in Iran and the ability of President Khatami to produce more moderate foreign policies.

80.   Whatever the missile tests really portended, tensions certainly rose.