21.   Faced with the resistance of communal guards, the armed group placed a bomb in a neighbouring house then fled, the newspaper said.

22.   On Friday and Saturday, Moslem groups placed advertisements in Kashmiri newspapers pledging to continue their separatist campaign until Kashmir secedes from India.

23.   The Nikkei News Service said the Sakura group of companies places about ten percent of its equity transactions with Nomura.