1.   Pakistan and Lebanon agreed Wednesday to boost defense ties and increase trade, saying that they shared similar views on regional and international issues.

2.   Ramos-Horta said he opposed the United States and Australia restoring defense ties with Indonesia that were cut over East Timor.

3.   A leader now praised for his moderate Muslim views will visit the White House this month amid growing defense ties.

4.   A majority of WEU members, including Germany, France and Britain, support closer defense ties and merging the WEU and the EU.

5.   A majority of WEU members, including Germany, France and Belgium, support closer defense ties and merging the WEU and the EU.

6.   Arab nations, especially Syria, Iran and Iraq, feel threatened by the defense ties which they believe is directed at them.

7.   Apart from sending stern protest notes to Paris and bitterly criticizing Chirac, both governments have done little more than freeze low-key defense ties with the French military.

8.   Art Hangar, the opposition defense spokesman in Parliament, urged the government to sign on to the plan to preserve traditional U.S.-Canada defense ties.

9.   Bhutan has asked India to stop them at the border, and India, which has close defense ties with Thimphu, will probably agree.

10.   Both have frozen defense ties with Paris and plan to have the tests condemned in the U.N. General Assembly.