91.   It cited large numbers of police and soldiers at polling stations as well as villagers who fled their homes because of nearby military patrols.

92.   Japan has backed its claims of sovereignty with official statements and military patrols and rebuffed Chinese demands that the extremists be kept away.

93.   Late Thursday, rebel officials issued a statement denying that they abandoned negotiations, and demanding that government forces cease military patrols around the safe haven.

94.   Many of those visitors had stayed in Zapatista villages, where they were welcomed by rebel-supporting peasants as a buffer against military patrols.

95.   Meanwhile in separate fighting Monday, rebels attacked a military patrol in eastern Sri Lanka, killing five soldiers.

96.   Military patrols spotted them two miles inside Honduran territory but took no action, he said.

97.   Meanwhile, the guerrillas ambushed a military patrol in eastern Sri Lanka, killing seven soldiers, the military said.

98.   Military patrols hunted the attackers in the four states and arrested a number of suspects Thursday night.

99.   Mojica said he hopes for a vote as peaceful as the Guerrero municipal elections, held in October after the EPR called a truce and military patrols were suspended.

100.   Muslim guerrillas on Sunday set off a pair of roadside bombs that blasted military patrols belonging to Israeli forces and their allied militia in south Lebanon.