1.   Government forces reached it by dinghy, as part of an attack which the LTTE said was accompanied by heavy and indiscriminate shelling and bombing over Jaffna.

2.   His refusal to denounce the NATO bombing over Kosovo and his willingness to provide refuge to Serbian opposition figures defined his break with Milosevic permanently.

3.   To encourage Russian and Chinese cooperation, NATO may need to cut back on bombing over Serbia itself for now.

4.   Chernomyrdin said the plan also calls for an end to NATO bombing over Yugoslavia once the West verifies that Milosevic has begun pulling his security forces out of Kosovo.

5.   Refugees who have fled Kandahar said relentless bombing over several days has brought chaos to the city, the spiritual home of the Taliban.

6.   President George W. Bush is filling out the lineup of his anti-terrorism team as Pentagon officials assess the damage from the U.S. bombing over Afghanistan.

7.   Rumsfeld said that the effectiveness of U.S. bombing over Afghanistan improved greatly once Americans arrived on the ground to call in strikes.

8.   Refugees who have fled Kandahar said relentless bombing over several days had brought chaos to the city, the spiritual home of the Taliban.

9.   The current series of raids took place after the administration and its Western European allies pressured the United Nations to turn questions of bombing over to the military.