71.   Since then, the investigation into the theft of nuclear secrets from Los Alamos has stalled, the officials acknowledged.

72.   So it was that, long before the Lee case made Washington hypersensitive about lax security, a push was underway to put key nuclear secrets under tighter lock.

73.   Spicing his denials with humor and compliments to his American hosts, Prime Minister Zhu Rongji asserted Thursday that China had never stolen nuclear secrets from the United States.

74.   The assertion by the Chinese government on Monday that the nuclear secrets are already available on the internet and in libraries is not terribly comforting, either.

75.   The annual renewal of trade privileges came amid allegations that China stole American nuclear secrets, and critics said the move would reward an oppressive government.

76.   The Chinese have stolen nuclear secrets, a hideously dangerous thing to do.

77.   The cooperative basis for such insights is under fire in Washington after Congress last year asserted that Chinese spies had made off with top American nuclear secrets.

78.   The indictment said that seven of the tapes that Lee had made, containing critical nuclear secrets, could not be found.

79.   The prosecution has said in previous filings that they believe the principal reason Lee improperly downloaded the nuclear secrets was to enhance his job prospects with the foreign institutes.

80.   The scientist, Wen Ho Lee, has not been charged with any crime and has denied giving nuclear secrets to anyone.