61.   The military began massive assaults against the rebels in September on Jolo island, south of Basilan, to rescue the remaining hostages and neutralize the guerrilla group.

62.   The military began airlifting Tamil families on Thursday to resettle them in their homes in northern Jaffna Peninsula, military officials said.

63.   The military began scaling back its role in politics in the final years of the authoritarian rule of Suharto, a former army general.

64.   The Russian military began its annual spring draft Thursday with lower enlistment goals for the shrinking armed forces.

65.   The U.S. military began moving equipment to Tirana, the Albanian capital, this weekend in advance of the Apaches, which will fly there from Germany.

66.   The trip into northern alliance territory via Tajikistan was difficult even before the U.S. and British militaries began pounding Taliban positions on Sunday.

67.   The U.S. military began developing a security partnership with Singapore after American forces were forced to leave major air and naval bases in the Philippines northeast of here.

68.   The U.S. military on Thursday began moving hooded and chained prisoners from the war in Afghanistan to a jail in Cuba.

69.   The U.S. military will begin using a new bomb in Afghanistan designed to send a suffocating blast through a cave complex without sealing the entrance with debris.

70.   They also demanded that the Tutsi-dominated military also begin peace talks with Hutu rebels.