1.   Satar works the front lines with his small children and other farmers, waving his arms and swatting at the advancing columns of locusts with rags and clothing.

2.   In another courtroom, two Bosnian Croats were accused of using Muslims, dressed in Croat uniforms, as human shields at the head of an advancing Croat column.

3.   Sharm el-Sheik fell to two advancing Israeli columns.

4.   The rebels rained mortar and heavy machine gunfire on three advancing columns of troops, officials said.

5.   The statement from spokesman Maj. Tilak Dunuwille said advancing columns of troops had overcome heavy resistance.

6.   They responded by engaging the advancing armored column and later pursued the fleeing soldiers across the flat terrain.