71.   Government troops sometimes respond with a burst of machine gun fire, sometimes they wait for government jets to bomb Taliban positions.

72.   Government troops were digging in along the border with Chechnya to prevent possible new attacks, and Russian jets bombed suspected militant bases inside the breakaway region.

73.   Government jets bomb rebel-held towns.

74.   He said opposition jets would bomb the Taliban strongholds in western Herat, southern Kandahar and the capital of Kabul.

75.   Hours later, opposition jets bomb Grozny.

76.   Hours later, four military jets bombed the Chechen capital, Grozny, while Chechen President Dzhokhar Dudayev calmly spoke with reporters inside his presidential palace.

77.   However, a Marine spokesman said three warship-based Harrier jets bombed a target in southern Afghanistan after being called in by a forward observer.

78.   In another development Sunday, U.S. jets bombed a former al-Qaida training camp near the Pakistan border, residents of the area said by telephone.

79.   In retaliation, Israeli jets bombed targets in south Lebanon, an army spokesman said.

80.   In the northern battleground, government air force jets bombed about six Tamil Tiger rebel positions on the peninsula, said military spokesman Brig. Palitha Fernando.