21.   Rebel forces have been readying themselves in recent days for a new offensive, displaying new equipment and parading troops during a recent large-scale exercise.

22.   Robert Kocharian, the military commander of Nagorno-Karabakh, says his soldiers are preparing for a new Azeri offensive.

23.   Russian stability suffered another blow Wednesday as the parliament opened a new offensive against President Boris Yeltsin with a vote of no confidence in his government.

24.   Rumsfeld repeated warnings of a new offensive by Taliban and Al Qaeda holdouts against allied forces and the interim government in Afghanistan as the weather improves.

25.   She said the Tigers were merely using the cease-fire to regroup and prepare for new offensives.

26.   The Chinese used the first round of negotiations as a breather to organize a new offensive.

27.   The new offensive by Seoul in the war of words dims the prospects that a high-level meeting between North and South Korea will be held soon.

28.   The rebels said they would respond to the Russian attacks with a new offensive.

29.   There were bribes to be paid, land mines to be avoided and, after every new offensive, new borders to be crossed.

30.   These fishermen are now leading a new offensive in the struggle to protect the watershed.