1.   During four months of the war, the capital had been devastated by spectacularly destructive artillery duels that gave neither side a significant advantage.

2.   Every now and then, shells fly across the nearby border into Tajikistan, where the lazy Afghan artillery duels have earned the contempt of many local residents.

3.   Future warfare may be more a gigantic artillery duel fought with exceptionally sophisticated munitions than a chesslike game of maneuver and positioning.

4.   In contrast, India and Pakistan have hundreds of thousands of troops poised for war along their border who have been engaged in fierce artillery duels for two weeks.

5.   Sporadic artillery duels were reported in the north of the country, and Bosnian government and rebel Serb representatives accused each other of violating the truce.

6.   The artillery duels at several points along the line intensified throughout the evening, peaking around midnight.

7.   The Croatian army engaged in a heavy tank and artillery duel near Pakrac with several hundred Serbs armed with mortars.

8.   There have been several skirmishes in recent days, but on Wednesday a full-scale artillery duel broke out near the border town of Zala Ambessa.

9.   Where artillery duels and ethnic cleansing were the rule, the reasoning goes, multicultural village democracy and a vibrant free market will now be cultivated.

10.   A bitter artillery duel between Taliban troops and opposition soldiers rages north of the beleaguered capital before dawn Friday.