81.   QUITO, Ecuador -- Peru attacks Ecuadorean border posts Wednesday with helicopter raids and mortar fire, and Ecuador claims it downed its fourth Peruvian helicopter.

82.   Peru attacked Ecuadorean border posts with helicopter raids and mortar fire, and Ecuador claimed it downed its fourth Peruvian helicopter.

83.   Rebel fighters hiding in irrigation canals poured mortar fire on soldiers advancing across rice fields, said Major Tilak Dunuwille, a military spokesman.

84.   Rebel gunmen from the Islamic Taliban militia exchanged heavy rocket and mortar fire with government forces Tuesday along the southern outskirts of the city.

85.   A coach, Senad Zulic, recalls one night when he and Karabasic fled mortar fire by helicopter to Zagreb, Croatia.

86.   A building where several displaced people had taken shelter, and a missionary school were also hit by mortar fire.

87.   A ninth U.S. soldier was killed by mortar fire on Saturday.

88.   A police official speaking on condition of anonymity said ethnic Albanian rebels opened small arms and mortar fire on Macedonian government positions.

89.   A U.N. observation post near the northeastern government town of Tuzla was destroyed by Serb tank and mortar fire on Tuesday, without injuries.

90.   A surge of shelling hit also Sarajevo, where government soldiers and besieging Bosnian Serbs have exchanged heavy mortar fire in recent weeks.