1.   It is the smile of an assassin, the kind Pancho Villa used to wear when he would ride out of the Mexican mountains to ambush government soldiers.

2.   Russian soldiers were ambushed and suffered heavy casualties in an early battle there, they say.

3.   They then ambushed soldiers protecting repair crews.

4.   U.N. officials say it has been infiltrated in the past six months by Rwandan Hutu militias from refugee camps in Zaire who ambush Rwandan soldiers and sabotage electricity pylons.

5.   Within hours, Palestinian gunmen ambushed Israeli soldiers near a West Bank settlement.

6.   Within hours, Palestinian gunmen ambushed Israeli soldiers near a West Bank settlement a few miles east of here, the Israeli army said.

7.   A Hezbollah statement in the southern port city of Sidon said guerrillas ambushed enemy soldiers near the security zone and inflicted a number of casualties.

8.   A Hezbollah official in the southern port city of Sidon said guerrillas ambushed enemy soldiers near the security zone and inflicted a number of casualties.

9.   Army officials said the two soldiers were killed in a gunbattle with militants, but police said the militants ambushed the soldiers at a checkpoint.

10.   Commander Hoxha, the self-styled ethnic Albanian National Liberation Army, said the soldiers were ambushed as they entered the village to make arrests.