1.   Fighting at this stage centred around Mostar and the eastern towns of Visegrad and Foca.

2.   Any resemblance between the exercise and the warfare taking place two countries away is purely coincidental, insist officials at the NATO camp in this eastern Czech town.

3.   For the last five years, he has been mayor of Kosice, turning the isolated eastern Slovak town into a lively urban hub.

4.   Stasiak, a construction worker who lives near this eastern German town in Saxony, is in training to build walls in the Netherlands.

5.   The bodies were buried in an eastern town, Baalbek, in a funeral that became an emotional protest against Israel and the United States.

6.   The concrete-block factory sits abandoned on the outskirts of this eastern German town.

7.   When the rebels first attacked last fall, the ill-trained and poorly paid government troops panicked, deserting their posts in eastern towns en masse.

8.   Pakistani police and villagers killed four members of an outlawed Sunni Muslim group Tuesday in a fierce gunbattle in a remote eastern town, police said.

9.   Police fired warning shots Tuesday to break up a brawl in an eastern Indonesian town that was devastated by religious rioting last month.

10.   Police said they were still trying to determine the exact circumstances of the stabbing that occurred early Saturday in this eastern German town.