1.   An Indian defense spokesman, Lt. Col. H.S. Oberoi, said five Pakistani soldiers were killed when the Indians returned fire, aiming at Pakistani bunkers and oil depots.

2.   At the Pentagon, Navy Rear Adm. Craig Quigley, a defense department spokesman, declined to discuss ongoing discussions between the president and the governor of Puerto Rico.

3.   A defense spokesman did not return calls.

4.   A French defense ministry spokesman made the same point.

5.   In addition to the mini-sub, Britain dispatched to the site three Hercules jets loaded with equipment and a navy survey vessel, a British defense ministry spokesman said.

6.   Some veterans and Baranets, the former defense ministry spokesman, suggested that an operation would do well to stop there.

7.   The account contradicted earlier statements from a defense command spokesman and the incoming chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

8.   The defense command spokesman said that even if the planes had chased supersonically, they would have had to slow to subsonic speeds to fire their missiles.

9.   They were looking for loved ones, said defense department spokesman Ben Owens.

10.   What is Philbin, a defense department spokesman, so eagerly awaiting?