11.   Neighboring Uzbekistan shut its border with northern Afghanistan sending crack troops on tanks to patrol the bridge that spans the Oxus River to link Afghanistan and Uzbekistan.

12.   Notorious mercenary Bob Denard surrendered to French soldiers Wednesday, hours after hundreds of crack troops invaded and battled his forces to reverse a coup he led last week.

13.   Some police commandos are now wearing black T-shirts with an image of crack troops shimmying down ropes from helicopters onto the roof of a building.

14.   The government also is fulfilling pledges to withdraw from offensive positions and to start demobilizing crack police troops.

15.   The deployment of crack troops and tanks against civilian pro-democracy protesters resulted in hundreds killed and thousands more wounded.

16.   The government is fulfilling pledges to release hundreds of rebel prisoners, withdraw from offensive positions and start demobilizing crack police troops.

17.   The government of Uzbekistan has closed its border with Afghanistan erecting giant cement barricades and deploying crack troops to the area.

18.   Their fate remained uncertain Thursday as crack troops stood watch, ordered to stop them from jumping overboard or the ship from docking.

19.   Their military junta sent in tanks and crack troops when tens of thousands of Kwangju citizens, many of them students, rose up for democracy.

20.   Thousands of U.S. marines and crack British troops along with a French aircraft carrier were headed to the Balkans.