71.   Refugees say Thai army forcing young men back to Burma.

72.   Rebel leaders say Burmese army preparing for major offensive.

73.   Reports that Chavez supporters would stage violent protests if their candidate lost prompted appeals for calm from President Caldera, who said the army would respect results.

74.   Senior army officials on Sunday appealed for peace and an end to the agitation, saying the army had begun an independent probe into the violence.

75.   Spokeswoman Lt. Col. Laverne Machine said army and air force intervention played a major role in putting out the fires.

76.   The assailant also was killed in the explosion, said army Col. A. Amunugama, who was among the first persons to reach the scene.

77.   The bodyguards had sophisticated equipment used to intercept radio frequencies used by authorities, the army said.

78.   The Bangladeshi army engineer died while searching for unexploded ordnance on the beach, said Norwegian army Col. Brynar Nymo, a spokesman for the peacekeepers.

79.   The Defense Ministry said the army and police killed nine Maoist rebels in eight separate shootouts in midwestern Nepal on Wednesday night.

80.   The dynamite was being used by the rebels in wave of recent attacks on electrical energy pylons and other infrastructure targets, the army said.