71. Aid agencies Saturday said fighting was also going on between NPFL and ULIMO-K militias at the St. Paul river bridge in central Liberia. 72. Army spokesman General Ron Kitrey said fighting continued in the Jenin refugee camp, the scene of some of the heaviest fighting. 73. But he said fierce fighting with Chechen secessionists persisted in the southeast of the city, one of the last rebel strongholds in Grozny. 74. Chechen chief negotiator Khodzhakhmed Yarikhanov said fighting also took place in Yandi, Bamut, Stary Achkhoi and Tangi Chu, all in western Chechnya. 75. Defence ministry sources said fighting between government forces and Taliban was under way Saturday to the southeast of Kabul, but details were not immediately available. 76. Earlier the government said fighting also erupted Wednesday around the strategically important town of Tavildara, east of Komsomolabad. 77. Eyewitnesses said fighting -- shelling, rockets, bombing and street fighting -- intensified in the city Wednesday, but it was impossible to establish a death toll. 78. The radio said fighting broke out early Sunday morning and continued intermittently through the morning. 79. The Taliban official did not provide any casualty figures but said fighting had subsided and that the Islamic student militia would soon resume the offensive. 80. UNPROFOR spokesman Lt.-Col. Tim Spicer said fighting around Kupres now appeared to have calmed down, with only mopping-up operations in progress. |