31.   Every spring, the army tries to take advantage of warmer weather in the mountains to launch an offensive.

32.   Fighting erupted in this recently conquered desert city Tuesday as Taliban religious army tried to put down an apparent uprising.

33.   Gunfire and grenade explosions sounded Wednesday as President Sylvestre Ntibantunganya toured two embattled neighborhoods where the army is trying to disarm Hutu militants.

34.   Horta said he suspected the Indonesian army is trying to delay the ballot, hoping that current presidential frontrunner Megawati Sukarnoputri ends up taking office later this year.

35.   Hutu civilians are trapped between the two forces, a Tutsi army trying to root out the enemy and Hutu rebels who punish those refusing to give aid.

36.   Hohxa claimed that the Macedonian army was trying to enter the town with armored personnel carriers, tanks and infantry.

37.   In neighboring Monrovia, Liberia, the commander of the Nigerian-led peacekeeping army trying to reverse the coup appealed Saturday for international help to accomplish the task.

38.   In July, the army had tried to capture Kilinochchi, but pulled back after being thwarted by the guerrillas.

39.   In fresh fighting, three Palestinians were killed by Israeli fire in the Gaza Strip, including one the army said was trying to plant bombs.

40.   Later he traveled to western Europe while the army tried to serve him with a draft notice.