71.  Most often, Rumsfeld and military spokesmen have dismissed accusations of mistakes as enemy propaganda.

72.  Military spokesmen here said the commanders were conferring with the Western alliance.

73.  Military spokesmen said that two soldiers were killed, but they did not say where.

74.  Military spokesmen said their newest ploy would be to send soldiers into the mountainous southern part of Chechnya to find rebel strongholds and arms caches.

75.  No formal warning or operational orders have been received, local military spokesmen said.

76.  No large tank units have yet gone into the city, federal military spokesmen said Monday.

77.  On Sunday, a U.S. military spokesman was slightly less categorical, and said the Pentagon would look into the reports.

78.  On Monday, two corpses were dumped near a U.S. bivouac, Camp Dragon, according to Col. Barry Willey, the U.S. military spokesman.

79.  Russian military spokesmen said their forces were making slow but steady progress.

80.  Russian military spokesmen have denied that the episode could have taken place, even as an investigation by Russian authorities appears to be under way.