11.   If the town is taken, the Northern Alliance hopes to open up the airfield there so that the American military can fly in supplies.

12.   If the Muslims take the town, they can swiftly cut the Bosnian Serb Republic in half.

13.   Janvier, a U.N. officer said, did not believe that the Serbs would take the town.

14.   No matter who took his town, he decided, his life would be in peril.

15.   On Thursday morning, Ethiopian troops took the town, the biggest one that they have captured, and called it a major victory.

16.   Outside of the initial battles for Goma and Bukavu, most towns have been taken without a serious fight.

17.   Take a town like Hoyerswerda, where there were terrible racist riots a few years ago.

18.   Taking the town is important to Russian efforts to cut it off and leave exit routes only to the south, which lead to relatively inhospitable mountains.

19.   The fundamental -- bucking impossible odds to take the town for a huge sum of loot -- remains.

20.   The rebel forces did not try to take towns or even assault government positions, he said.