61.   Turkish helicopters rushed to pursue the rebels, it said.

62.   Turkish troops pursuing rebel Kurds fight fierce battles around the northern Iraqi town of Metina.

63.   Venezuela warned Monday that it will repel any incursions into its territory by Colombian paramilitaries, whose main leader threatened to pursue Colombian rebels all the way to Caracas.

64.   General Humberto Santos, subdirector of the Boyaca department police, said Thursday that army and police forces were pursuing the rebels.

65.   Bantariza said that an army unit was continuing to pursue the rebels.

66.   The Monitor quoted northern Ugandan army commander General Salim Saleh as saying that his forces could not pursue the rebels because they feared killing the girls in a crossfire.

67.   The schoolgirls were initially taken from Aboke, but their headmistress, an Italian nun, pursued the rebels and managed to free most of the girls.

68.   The Turkish army rejected allegations Saturday that its soldiers pursuing Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq had looted the homes of Kurdish villagers.

69.   Turkish Foreign Minister Erdal Inonu refused Sunday to give a date for when Turkish troops pursuing Kurd rebels in northern Iraq would be withdrawn.

70.   Turkey has twice launched military operations against the PKK over the Iraqi border to pursue rebels using it as a base.