51.   Chechnya which has been embroiled in fighting since December when Russian troops marched in to quell a three-year-old independence drive by Dudayev.

52.   Defence sources said troops had concentrated intense aerial bombardments elsewhere in the Jaffna peninsula, while troops marched here almost without firing a shot.

53.   The peace accord between the two sides came nearly eight months after Rusian troops marched into the breakaway republic to crush a three-year independence drive.

54.   The talks are aimed at ending a seven-month war that began when Russian troops marched into Chechnya to quell a three-year secessionist rebellion.

55.   Moslem separatists staged the ambush after troops marched into Kalaroos to flush out rebels hiding in the thinly-populated Kupwara village on the Pakistan border, they said.

56.   On Thursday, the sources added, Israeli troops marched into the autonomous West Bank towns of El Bireh and Tulkarem.

57.   Portugal severed diplomatic ties with Indonesia shortly after Indonesia troops marched into East Timor.

58.   Russian and Chechen forces have been fighting since December when Russian troops marched into Grozny to quell a three-year-old independence drive.

59.   Russian television reported that the Russian army headquarters in Gudermes had been captured by the rebels, but that federal troops were marching to the town from neighbouring Dagestan.

60.   The conference between regional and federal leaders here is the first since Russian troops marched last December into the secessionist Caucasus republic where fighting is still raging.