61.   India has begun taking hard economic blows from an outbreak of plague which has led to the snapping of air and shipping links by several countries.

62.   A Hong Kong containership has slipped quietly into a Taiwan port inaugurating direct shipping links between the island and the mainland.

63.   All air and shipping links with India were severed by the Gulf monarchies and Yemen.

64.   Although Taiwan recently approved the direct shipping links with China, it bars the merchandize from its shores and requires the products to be shipped to a third country.

65.   Chechnya, an oil-rich, mainly-Moslem Caucasus republic on the edge of the Caspian Sea, controls access to the key shipping link.

66.   China is to announce soon administrative regulations governing the direct shipping link with rival Taiwan, a Beijing-backed newspaper reported Friday.

67.   China issued Tuesday a series of regulations on the management of direct shipping links with Taiwan, although such traffic is not currently permitted.

68.   Chechnya lies on the edge of the Caspian Sea and controls access to a key shipping link.

69.   China on Tuesday announced a series of regulations to govern direct shipping links with Taiwan, even though such traffic is not allowed at present.

70.   Direct shipping links are still outlawed by Taiwan, but the move is seen as a step toward an agreement on links.