31.   Energy providers to the New England and mid-Atlantic states also were operating near their peaks.

32.   Ethnic Albanian rebels operating near the boundary with Kosovo exchanged gunfire Sunday with Serbian police one day after a new democratically elected Yugoslav president took office in Belgrade.

33.   Ethnic Hutu rebels fighting the Tutsi-led government of President Pierre Buyoya operate near the airport, and employees said they have come closer in recent days.

34.   Federal officials seized a large cache of arms, ammunition and explosives from a criminal group operating near Moscow, a news agency reported Wednesday.

35.   Gen. Tommy Franks, the U.S. commander of the Afghanistan campaign, said American special forces were operating near Kandahar.

36.   He confirmed that a KLA base was operating near the village and that heavy fighting between Serb forces and the KLA had recently occurred.

37.   Hun Sen also pressed Thaksin for further help in isolating Khmer Rouge guerrillas who operate near the border.

38.   Koji Sasaoka, an official with the Hokkaido government, said officials there had yet to confirm whether the fishing vessels had been operating near Kunashiri.

39.   Many of the rebels, including the notorious Khmer Rouge, operated near the border with Thailand.

40.   On the way, they once mixed with a fleet of Chinese fishing boats operating near the border to avoid detection by North Korean patrols.