71.   He said the trucks headed for a nearby mountainous area and that soldiers and police commandos were in pursuit.

72.   Heavy snows, which blanket the mountainous area during the bitterly cold winter, also hindered rescue efforts, he said.

73.   Heavy winter snows, which blanket the mountainous area each year, also hindered rescue efforts, he said.

74.   Hundreds of tourists and villagers were stranded in the mountainous area, police said.

75.   In almost every village in the mountainous area near the Sichuan border, a few mud, brick and wood houses collapsed.

76.   In Lebanon, high winds and heavy rains struck the capital Beirut and snows fell in mountainous areas.

77.   In recent weeks U.S.-led operations have focused around the mountainous Khost area near the Pakistan border southeast of Kabul.

78.   In the southwestern Dordogne, authorities on Wednesday banned outdoor fires throughout the department and motor vehicles in mountainous forested areas.

79.   Islamic guerrillas fired on an army patrol in a mountainous area near the Pakistan border, the military said.

80.   Indian forces have been ordered to stay away from a mountainous area where Kashmiri separatists are holding four Western hostages, an official said Tuesday.