1.   Gov. Kuan Keomany of Luang Namtha, a mountainous province on the Chinese border, said he was satisfied with the achievements of socialism.

2.   Alleged Islamic militants clashed with Russian police Monday in a mountainous province near the border of the breakaway region of Chechnya, police said.

3.   But nowhere else is the Freedom Party nearly as strong, partly due to a lack of attractive leaders in the mountainous province.

4.   Damp weather in the mountainous province has aggravated fevers from measles infections, particularly among malnourished children, Abrams said.

5.   Kashmir, a mountainous province divided between Indian and Pakistan, is claimed by both countries.

6.   Meanwhile, flash floods killed three people in another northern mountainous province, Lai Chau, pushing the death toll there to six since early this month.

7.   Miners at the Red Star Coal Mine in mountainous Sichuan province were digging when they hit a pocket of poison gas trapped in the rock, the report said.

8.   Police clashed with suspected Communist guerrillas on a citrus plantation in a mountainous Philippine province, killing one rebel and capturing six others, officials said Wednesday.

9.   The central highlands, central coast and northern mountainous provinces have been hit particularly hard.

10.   The neighboring nuclear powers blame each other for the fighting that erupted last week in the mountainous province.