21.   Young men turned out in the streets of Abidjan with black-painted faces, symbolizing traditional war preparations.

22.   Thousands of Dominican soldiers are making war preparations in the remote town of Dajabon.

23.   Juppe denied that an allied military buildup in the region necessarily amounted to war preparations.

24.   North Korea, marking one of its key military anniversaries, issued a fresh warning Monday against what it called war preparations by South Korea and the United States.

25.   North Korea accused the United States Friday of stepping up war preparations on the Korean peninsula by selling Stinger anti-aircraft missiles to South Korea.

26.   Tamil newspapers said that LTTE supremo Velupillai Prabhakaran was personally inspecting the war preparations of his men in the embattled northern region.