71.   Japan protested over the action of Chinese security guards in entering the consulate grounds to arrest the five.

72.   Liaoyang workers were protesting over alleged corruption, unpaid wages and insufficient severance compensation.

73.   Manila on Friday banned foreign participants from entering the Philippines for the seminar after Jakarta strongly protested over the planned meeting.

74.   Only a few hundred Nezavisnost members have joined opposition demonstrations protesting over the cancellation of local election results, won by the opposition.

75.   Papua New Guinea soldiers, protesting over job cuts, mutinied over the weekend, burning down two buildings and taking over an armoury, it was reported Monday.

76.   PLO leader Yasser Arafat strongly protested over a part of the Washington Declaration which offered Jordan the right of religious control over Moslem holy sites in East Jerusalem.

77.   Police in Indian-administered Kashmir fired tear gas Wednesday to disperse several thousand Muslim villagers protesting over the alleged murder of a civilian by the security forces.

78.   Radio Mozambique said the workers might be protesting over the privileges granted to their foreign colleagues, long a source of disgruntlement.

79.   Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama said Friday that Japan might protest over a US stamp depicting the mushroom clouds of the World War II atomic bombings on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

80.   Russian officials have also protested over the conditions of the deal.