31.   The men were on the way to inspect troops in a military area in Hadramawt near the Saudi border.

32.   French Defense Minister Alain Richard will travel to Tajikistan on Wednesday to inspect French troops stationed here, the Tajik defense ministry announced.

33.   He also visited Gorkha, the ancestral home of his Shah dynasty, and Pokhara, where he inspected troops and met army officers, the radio said.

34.   Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic on Monday inspected troops led by Arkan, an ultra-nationalist Serb regarded by the United States as a war criminal.

35.   Early Thursday, he is due leave for a one-day visit to Bosnia to inspect troops there, the official said.

36.   The UN chief is scheduled to inspect UNFICYP troops on the Green Line that runs across the island before leaving Cyprus for East Timor on Thursday.

37.   Twenty-four hours later, however, Grachev left the Caucasus after meeting only with pro-Russian Chechen officials and inspecting his troops.

38.   Zairean rebel chief Laurent-Desire Kabila left to inspect his troops Tuesday as a US diplomat arrived in Goma, his headquarters town on the Rwandan border.

39.   Kozub later informed Sarajevo by phone that he had been set free and that he intended staying in the pocket to inspect his troops.

40.   Lebanese Army Chief of Staff Emile Lahoud inspected troops on Tuesday deployed in positions close to Israeli-occupied areas of southern Lebanon, military sources said.