11.   Despite an order by Yasser Arafat, the Palestinian leader, to halt mortar attacks, Palestinians fired shells into an Israeli settlement, but no one was hurt.

12.   Earlier Tuesday in the Gaza Strip, the bodies of a Palestinian mother and her child were discovered after an Israeli tank fired a shell into their home.

13.   For his pains, Aoun gave Leotard an invalid Lebanese passport, which the future minister accepted before continuing to fire his shells into the Muslim sector of Beirut.

14.   He likened the modern House to a battlefield across which the parties had been firing cannon shells.

15.   He said no shells were fired, but that one tank commander was dismissed for being out of position and too close to a heavily developed area.

16.   He ordered an end to mortar fire last week, and it tapered off although shells were fired Tuesday on a Gaza settlement.

17.   He said everyone was a bit squirmy when they went into one base and passed row after row after row of tanks capable of firing nuclear shells.

18.   His father is a cant-spouting former Black Panther who begins poetry readings by firing shotgun shells into the auditorium ceiling.

19.   In another ominous development Monday, Palestinians fired mortar shells from Gaza into an Israeli town in the adjacent Negev Desert.

20.   In fact, the opposite happened with India firing shells across the border.