1.   An International Red Cross spokesman in Luanda said IRC staff in Kuito reported a lull in fighting between UNITA rebels and the besieged government army.

2.   Besieged government forces beat back waves of attacks by thousands of Tamil rebels on a key military base in northern Sri Lanka, military officials said Friday.

3.   But they appeared to be on the defensive and ceased their attacks on the besieged government compound Sunday, apart from occasional shelling.

4.   But they appeared to be on the defensive and, apart from occasional shelling, ceased their attacks on the besieged government compound downtown.

5.   Chechen rebels pushed back Russian armored columns advancing to reinforce besieged government buildings in Grozny on the third day of fighting for control of the Chechen capital.

6.   He was referring to a three-day-old Bosnian government infantry attack on Serb positions south of the besieged government enclave of Bihac, in northwestern Bosnia.

7.   Irfan Ljubijankic was on a helicopter flight from his native Bihac, a besieged government town in northwestern Bosnia, when he was shot down.

8.   The besieged government of President Burhanuddin Rabbani has been threatening for weeks to push their Taliban rivals out of rocket range of the capital.

9.   The overdue loans date to a time when Washington was channeling hundreds of millions of dollars into South Vietnam to try to prop up its besieged government.

10.   The military said the besieged Lesotho government had called for intervention by the Southern African Development Community.