61.   A commission of inquiry recently urged the government to show restraint in selling arms and convert much of the defense industry to civilian uses.

62.   A year later, the Stepnogorsk plant was reorganized for civilian use and renamed Biomedpreparat.

63.   Arrest warrants were issued for them and seven others on charges including sedition, treason, terrorism and possessing military weapons banned for civilian use.

64.   Chernomyrdin stressed the need to convert Soviet-era defense plants to civilian uses, a key issue in Samara, home to many military-related industries.

65.   Civilian use of plutonium would be banned.

66.   Civilian use of handguns is banned in Japan, but model guns are legal.

67.   China today denied charges that sophisticated machinery imported from the United States for civilian use ended up in a missile factory, in violation of U.S. law.

68.   Civilian uses could include tracking deforestation, mapping drainage patterns and producing better hiking maps of remote, mountainous areas.

69.   Co-operation in maritime operations, civilian uses of nuclear energy, environmental protection and the fight against international crimes, including terrorism, will be widened.

70.   Crippled by a critical fuel shortage, the United Nations signaled Tuesday that it may give in to Serb demands to ban civilian use of the front-line Sarajevo airport.