71.   The session was intended to ease the tensions raised when each country set off a series of underground nuclear explosions in May.

72.   The underground explosion buckled the floor, blew two huge holes in the concrete wall and caused a corner of the roof to collapse.

73.   The underground explosions were in response to similar tests conducted by its uneasy neighbor India.

74.   There was no sign from either country that it would reconsider its nuclear options, which were hugely expanded after each conducted a series of underground explosions last month.

75.   The underground explosions a year ago upset a world that was shedding its Cold War nuclear armories after decades of living under the threat of atomic annihilation.

76.   TURKEY MINE -- Up to five people are feared dead after an underground explosion in a coal mine northeast of Ankara Friday.

77.   France also publicly has backed the treaty to ban all underground nuclear explosions.

78.   France on Friday carried out a third underground nuclear explosion at its test site in the South Pacific, the defence ministry said.

79.   France has also backed a ban on all underground nuclear explosions.

80.   France, now that it has completed its extremely controversial tests in the South Pacific, has backed the treaty to ban all underground nuclear explosions.