61.   North Korea will try to present the test as a missile launch, Defense Ministry sources said.

62.   Real-time warning of missile launches would help Israel intercept the projectiles at an early stage in their trajectory.

63.   Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., a leading authority on Russia, said there is almost no chance of an accidental missile launch.

64.   Shaken by a North Korean missile launch last August, Japanese politicians have been grappling with defense issues in a nation where such talk was practically taboo.

65.   Russia also has the capacity for electronic reconnaissance that can give it information about such things as missile launches, Tarasenko said.

66.   Russia is losing its ability to monitor missile launches by other nations as its military satellites are increasingly wearing out, a top military official said Friday.

67.   Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov signed an agreement Saturday aimed at strengthening cooperation on preventing accidental missile launches on both sides.

68.   Shen repeatedly stressed that the missile launches were simply normal exercises needed to train and test the military.

69.   Since Soviet times, Russia has relied on both military satellites and early-warning radars to follow missile launches.

70.   Speaking in a televised national address, Kuchma ordered the military to suspend all missile launches while an investigation into the crash continues.