61.   Ghafoori said opposition fighters had advanced six to nine miles toward Mazar-e-Sharif in brisk fighting Monday and Tuesday.

62.   He said five opposition fighters were injured but none died.

63.   He said five opposition fighters were wounded, but none died.

64.   He and other opposition fighters say they are shortest of ammunition, fuel and the most basic necessities including food.

65.   He said the Taliban supreme leader, Mullah Mohammed Omar, ordered his soldiers not to confiscate weapons of opposition fighters who join the Taliban.

66.   He stressed that only disarmed opposition fighters will be allowed back into Tajikistan.

67.   If the proposed sanctions are adopted, they say they will boycott U.N.-sponsored talks with the northern opposition fighters.

68.   Ignoring a new cease-fire, opposition fighters kept up their siege Friday of an encircled government commando battalion in eastern Tajikistan.

69.   In Kabul, the opposition fighters killed several Arabs and Pakistanis, who were left behind by the retreating Taliban forces.

70.   In New York, U.N. spokesman Juan-Carlos Brandt put the blame on opposition fighters.