71.   MOSCOW -- President Boris Yeltsin acknowledges on a major military holiday Thursday that the Russian army needs reform, but denies it has committed atrocities in Chechnya.

72.   North Korea regularly celebrates major holidays by awarding medals and promoting soldiers.

73.   Rangoon was quiet and schools and offices closed on a major holiday that marks the beginning of Buddhist Lent.

74.   Russia celebrates major holiday.

75.   Sardjono Djatiman of the University of Indonesia told The Jakarta Post Saturday that beggars pour into the city around major holidays to prey on the good intentions of Jakartans.

76.   She also had a villa in Geneva, but was allowed to visit North Korea only on major holidays.

77.   South Korea traditionally celebrates its major holidays with sweeping pardons for political prisoners.

78.   Spokeswoman Gila Reinstein said the school holds classes on all major holidays that fall during the term.

79.   South Korea marks Christmas and other major holidays with special amnesties or pardons for inmates who it believes have repented.

80.   South Korea regularly releases a large number of inmates to mark major holidays.