51.   Colombian rebels have adopted the tactic of hurling hundreds of combatants against small police outposts in remote areas, and apparently taking no prisoners.

52.   Colombian rebels have shot down helicopters before.

53.   Colombian rebels killed five police in ambush, authorities say.

54.   Colombian rebels often cross the Venezuelan border to kidnap and extort Venezuelan ranchers and businessmen.

55.   Colombian rebels on Saturday invited U.S. officials to see firsthand that the insurgents are not drug traffickers.

56.   Colombia has long suspected Chavez of sympathizing with leftist Colombian rebels.

57.   Colombian authorities suspect Chavez of sympathizing with Colombian rebel groups.

58.   Colombian rebels acknowledged that they hijacked an Avianca airliner last week and kidnapped all of its occupants.

59.   Colombian rebels are believed to earn hundreds of millions of dollars through their links to drug traffickers.

60.   Colombian rebels beat back government soldiers flown into a remote jungle region to retake a state capital.