61.   Israeli troops responded with tear gas and rubber-coated steel pellets.

62.   Israeli troops responded with tear gas.

63.   Last month, the Security Council pledged an overhaul of U.N. peacekeeping operations so troops could respond more quickly and robustly to world trouble spots.

64.   Macedonian security troops responded with fierce artillery and tank fire, they said.

65.   Markovski said the rebels fired from two Jeeps, and the government troops responded.

66.   Protesters threw bottles and stones, and troops responded with tear gas and rubber bullets.

67.   Raul said the fighting broke out last week when government troops responded to two months of attacks by roving rebels, endangering a peace process that began last November.

68.   Russian troops responded by sealing off roads and bridges into the city.

69.   Spokesman Marjan Djurovski said the rebels opened fire on Macedonian army positions from the villages of Sipkovica and Gajre, and that government troops responded.

70.   Stone-throwing broke out, but Israeli troops responded only with percussion grenades, meant more to scare than injure.