51.   Speaking in Canberra, Evans blamed dissaray in the Cambodian armed forces for a series of Khmer Rouge military advances earlier this year.

52.   Taliban press spokesman Mullah Amir Shah Muttaqi, the acting Minister of Culture and Information, has repeatedly denied any military advance by opposition forces in Badghis.

53.   Tamil sources said the Tigers offered intense resistance to the military advance from a well-fortified underground bunker network.

54.   Tamil Tiger guerrillas were putting up stiff resistance to a military advance against their political headquarters and said government troops were Saturday bogged down in their latest campaign.

55.   The Afghan Hezb-i-Islami faction said Tuesday its fighters had repulsed a military advance by armed religious students known as Talibans in Wardak province near Kabul.

56.   The bomb threat came amid speculation that a military advance against the LTTE-held northern Jaffna peninsula was imminent.

57.   The Jaffna peninsula has been the scene of fierce fighting recently following a major military advance that has forced LTTE rebels out of large areas of the region.

58.   The rebels had vowed to resist any military advance inside their stronghold.