71.   On Sunday morning, Israeli snipers in groups of about a half-dozen took up positions around the compound, crouching low with guns pointed in different directions.

72.   On Friday, Rwandan gunboats in Lake Kivu shot at Zairian positions around Goma.

73.   On Friday, NATO warplanes aborted an airstrike against Serb positions around Bihac after the jets failed to find their targets before darkness.

74.   On Tuesday, dozens of Israeli soldiers took up positions around a West Bank village, and troops set up tents along the main road leading into it.

75.   Rejecting a United Nations peace plan, rebel gunmen from the Taliban militia Saturday launched a new assault against government positions around the Afghan capital, Kabul.

76.   Police Rangers and Frontier Constabulary troops were taking up positions around the province in a bid to end clashes between Sunni and Shiite Muslim extremist groups.

77.   Russian helicopter gun ships and jets fired rockets at rebel positions around Grozny.

78.   Provincial police continued to hold positions around the park, an adjacent military camp occupied by rebel Chippewa and the neighboring reserve.

79.   Reports Saturday said that two policemen were killed and five others wounded after the tribesmen fired a rocket-propelled grenade at security forces moving into positions around them.

80.   Security forces and firefighters then took position around the airliner and the airport was shut down and evacuated, officials said.