11.   Croats claimed a new battlefield victory over rebel Serbs today amid more evidence of atrocities during earlier offensives by both sides.

12.   He won battlefield victories but was criticized for his tough tactics.

13.   In public, Serb bravado over battlefield victories still wins out.

14.   Rebel Serb leaders have alleged widespread atrocities in the wake of Croatian battlefield victories, but there was no independent confirmation.

15.   The peace treaty was to have been signed last Tuesday, but government battlefield victories caused the rebels to demand a truce before they would sign.

16.   The Taliban religious militia that controls most of Afghanistan claimed another battlefield victory Monday in a northern town, but the report could not be independently confirmed.

17.   Their claims of a battlefield victory were belied by the untrampled fields of waist-high wheat and by the road unscarred by tank treads.

18.   In contrast the Moslem-led government, boosted by its alliance with the Croats and recent battlefield victories, wants a shorter ceasefire.