1.   Its threatened retaliation has likewise been shrewdly targeted to inflict maximum political harm.

2.   Saddam said his troops were pulling back from the area after the U.S. ordered its forces in the Persian Gulf to be placed on high alert and threatened retaliation.

3.   In other violence, a Palestinian militant was killed in the West Bank town of Jenin in an explosion Palestinians blamed on Israel and threatened retaliation.

4.   The are fleeing threatened retaliation by the Albanian Kosovars, who accuse them of collaboration with Serb authorities in wartime atrocities committed in the Yugoslav province.

5.   The guerrillas were on alert for threatened Israeli retaliation following the killing of nine soldiers in the last week.

6.   The North insisted that the sub drifted into southern waters because of engine trouble, and threatened retaliation.

7.   They said they were from Kosovo and fleeing threatened retaliation by ethnic Albanians, who accuse Gypsies of collaborating with Serbs in wartime atrocities in Kosovo.

8.   Greece tightened its border with Albania on Thursday and threatened economic retaliation after a court in Tirana jailed five ethnic Greeks on charges of spying for Athens.

9.   North Korea has threatened retaliation following the defection and contends that South Korea abducted Hwang.

10.   Opposition to Operation Volcano did not produce the threatened retaliation by the Bosnian Serbs however.