1.   About midnight, the first Federal units began withdrawing from the field.

2.   Later as weapons and uniforms became available and with the help of the older men, the unit began to take shape.

3.   In March the first Soviet military units began withdrawing with their equipment from Czechoslovakia and Hungary.

4.   As medic units began arriving, they too had to abandon their vehicles.

5.   Across Kuwait, special security units have begun to man roadblocks and have taken up new positions outside the U.S. and British embassies.

6.   For example, the DIS unit began looking last year for a man named as a syphilis contact.

7.   Israeli military officials also said Tuesday that army units had begun a pullout from Tulkarm.

8.   Moreover, units began to be vandalized, their coin boxes broken into, and motel owners gradually came to see them as a nuisance.

9.   Several other task force units began to converge from the side streets.

10.   Serbian mercenaries whom Mobutu had recruited to defend the city fled after Zairian army units began defecting to the rebel side.