101.   Troops have surrounded the area and negotiations with the captors were under way, the officials said.

102.   Tremors, which shook the mountain and surrounding area continuously for the first two days, have also lessened.

103.   Two heavy fences would surround the area.

104.   French and Dutch police were also being contacted for information on women missing from surrounding border areas.

105.   Government troops forced rebel forces into surrounding mountain areas or toward the Afgan border, the official said.

106.   HAMAS had planned a demonstration at the mosque, a centre of resistance to autonomy, but security forces surrounded the area.

107.   Hundreds of students broke into the university grounds on Monday and the Israeli authorities responded by surrounding the area with paratroopers.

108.   An UNPROFOR map of the situation, presented here, showed they now completely surrounded the area from the south, west and east.

109.   Earlier Thursday, civilian leaders in Zepa refused to surrender to Bosnian Serb forces who have the UN safe area surrounded.

110.   The RRA has been fighting militiamen loyal to faction leader Hussein Mohamed Aidid in the southwestern town of Baidoa and surrounding areas for the past year.