1.   Fortuitously, the advancing Union forces operated as a safety valve.

2.   A few days after his release, Duch learned of the horrors of the German concentration camps, also liberated by advancing Allied forces.

3.   A commander of American naval forces in the Arabian Sea said planes from the aircraft carriers there had supported the advancing Afghan forces.

4.   However, in Sakhalin, as elsewhere, the advancing Soviet forces and confusion that followed the end of the war led to tragic separations of families.

5.   Keeping barely a step ahead of the advancing Japanese forces after Pearl Harbor, they eventually withdrew to Brisbane, Australia.

6.   Planes flew on call to support the advancing forces of the Northern Alliance, the U.S.-backed coalition, rather than hitting targets of opportunity as previously.

7.   Advancing Croat forces have captured two strategic towns in western Bosnia and severed a key Serb supply artery.

8.   Elsewhere in the region, KLA troops were fleeing from advancing Serb forces.

9.   His wife, an invalid, was too sick to run and was killed by advancing forces.

10.   Palestinian gunmen said they had planted bombs in buildings to hold back advancing Israeli forces.