71.   After dinner together Saturday night, Clinton and Putin held formal talks Sunday.

72.   Aides said the leaders had decided not to decide until their formal talks start Tuesday whether to admit Cambodia now.

73.   After six years of fighting, independence-seeking militants in Kashmir held their first formal talks with the Indian government Friday.

74.   Also Monday, EU ministers held their first formal talks with finance ministers from nine central and eastern European nations being groomed for eventual EU membership.

75.   After six years of fighting, pro-independence militants in Kashmir held their first formal talks with the Indian government Friday.

76.   All three have been appointed to a negotiating panel which hopes to soon stage formal talks with the rebels.

77.   Al Attiyah was speaking to reporters after the informal talks broke up at a hotel in the Austrian capital in advanve of formal talks later in the day.

78.   Ambassador Jose Urrutia of Peru, speaking for India, Pakistan and other nonaligned countries, demanded that the conference start formal talks on a nuclear disarmament treaty.

79.   Although India has said it will not engage in formal talks with Pakistan until the intrusion has been reversed, informal communications continued.

80.   An IMF accord is an essential requirement for formal rescheduling talks to begin.