51.   Fitzgerald said the pilots were also trying hard to avoid civilian casualties or collateral damage, as military jargon puts it.

52.   He said the front also wants the government to observe an international accord on how an internal armed conflict should be conducted, particularly to avoid civilian casualties.

53.   Heavy casualties were avoided because stores and restaurants had been closed due to the early hour.

54.   However, he added that he had called a halt to the bombing of the Chechen capital Grozny to avoid civilian casualties.

55.   Human rights groups urged the government and rebels to avoid civilian casualties.

56.   In Moscow, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott urged Russia today to turn from military force to dialogue in Chechnya and to avoid civilian casualties.

57.   In previous strikes, Israel gave the Palestinians advance notice to avoid casualties.

58.   Israel has tried to portray its bombardment of Lebanon as a high-tech campaign of surgical strikes which avoided civilian casualties.

59.   Israel has said it has tried to avoid civilian casualties and the army said it was unaware of the demolition that killed the Shobi family in Nablus.

60.   Israel has said it has tried to avoid civilian casualties and the army said it was unaware of the Shobi family deaths in Nablus.