31.   Neither the North Koreans nor the North Vietnamese used prisoners as human shields, though both had ample opportunities.

32.   Noncombatants who stay will become human shields in a city that the Americans say they do not intend to bomb into rubble or take street by street.

33.   On a recent day, someone proposed that federal authorities installed a day-care center in the Alfred P. Murrah building in Oklahoma City as a human shield.

34.   On Tuesday, Bosnian forces in Zepa had threatened to use the Ukrainians as human shields against a Serbian attack if NATO aircraft did not come to their aid.

35.   Palestinians said they were forced into use as human shields as soldiers searched from house to house, and one soldier acknowledged the practice.

36.   Peering out a window, he saw people used as human shields and houses set on fire.

37.   Rebel groups have captured hundreds of civilians and are using them as human shields to stave off attacks by government troops.

38.   Residents also claim some civilians were used as human shields.

39.   Rebel leader Shamil Basayev demanded the human shields in an unexpected resumption of telephone negotiations Monday morning with Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin.

40.   Russian lawmakers today offered to travel to Bosnian Serb military bases to act as human shields against further NATO air strikes.