1.   A chair from which he has just got up is shattered by fire from an automatic weapon triggered by remote control.

2.   Israeli machine-gun fire shattered stained glass windows, and Palestinian militia members broke up church pews to fashion them as barricades against Israeli forces.

3.   Heavy mortar fire shattered the calm around Brazzaville airport Sunday morning as further cracks began to appear in a fragile cease-fire between the president and his chief rival.

4.   Interfax said shell fire had shattered virtually every window in Arshty.

5.   Machine-gun fire shattered the quiet for hours.

6.   Machine-gun and semiautomatic fire shattered the morning calm.

7.   The Interfax news agency said shell fire had shattered virtually every window in Arshty.

8.   When rebel mortar fire shattered the nighttime stillness, a teen-age army sentry emptied both magazines of his assault rifle into the darkness.