1.   The NBA heard it and went on the offensive this weekend to offer rebuttals.

2.   After launching a weekend offensive, the Macedonian army claimed it had forced rebels to flee the village of Slupcane and retreat across the nearby border into Kosovo.

3.   Air raid sirens sounded Tuesday in Baghdad as Washington reportedly prepared for a military strike to punish Saddam Hussein for a weekend offensive in northern Iraq.

4.   Clinton ordered the cruise missile attacks Tuesday and Wednesday in response to a weekend offensive by Iraq on the protected Kurdish area in its north.

5.   Iraq, meanwhile, has said it withdrew all its troops from the northern region after a weekend offensive.

6.   One soldier said the group was returning from the weekend offensive that recaptured the mountain peak of Tololing.

7.   One soldier said the group was returning from the weekend offensive that recaptured the key mountain peak of Tololing.

8.   The Clinton administration, which gave Croatia tacit approval for the weekend offensive, has warned that a second attack could jeopardize relations with the United States.

9.   The Croatian army regained most of that land with its weekend offensive.

10.   The U.N. plan would allow Iraq to buy food supplies but was put on hold following the Iraqi offensive last weekend.