1.   He received a briefing on the tense northern border, where mounting Hezbollah rocket attacks are being met with gradually intensifying Israeli counterstrikes.

2.   India, meanwhile, refused to pull back troops from their tense border until militant operations are stopped.

3.   Moreover, its tense border with North Korea means that the political as well as financial stakes for the U.S. and other major countries are high.

4.   On the tense northern border with Lebanon, Hezbollah guerrillas fired mortar rounds and rockets into Israel, which retaliated with artillery.

5.   Privately, military officers have complained that the civic action program has diverted deployments and money from the traditionally tense border with Colombia.

6.   Secretary of State Colin Powell is in South Asia trying to ease the dangerous buildup of military forces on the tense border between India and Pakistan.

7.   The resumption of military talks is not expected to lead to any breakthroughs, but it could help resolve any crisis that erupted in the tense border area.

8.   Pakistani jets shot down an unmanned Indian spy plane Friday near the tense border between the nuclear-armed South Asian rivals, the Pakistani air force said.

9.   A Macedonian soldier was shot and killed on patrol near the tense border with Yugoslavia, the Defense Ministry said Friday.

10.   A North Korean worker swam down a river along the tense border and defected to South Korea Thursday, the Defense Ministry said.