91.   Prime Minister Tansu Ciller said the operation would continue until all Kurdish rebel bases were wiped out.

92.   Russian aircraft conducted intensive bombing of suspected rebel bases in two districts southwest of Grozny, the official said.

93.   Russian aviation bombed suspected rebel bases in the Itum-Kale region near the Georgian border while artillery shelled targets in the Kurchaloi and Vedeno regions in southern Chechnya.

94.   Russian forces destroyed a rebel base in a region of Chechnya where insurgents have recently stepped up attacks, news reports said Friday.

95.   Russian forces pounded suspected rebel bases in Chechnya with air and artillery strikes.

96.   Russian forces responded with artillery attacks on suspected rebel bases in the Itum-Kale, Vedeno, Nozhai-Yurt and Kurchaloi districts in southern Chechnya.

97.   Russian jets pounded suspected rebel bases in the southern Nozha-Urt district and the Itum-Kale region, on the border with Georgia.

98.   Russian warplanes and artillery continued to batter rebel bases, striking deep in the mountains to uproot separatist fighters from their hideouts.

99.   Safeen Dizayhee, a spokesman for the group said in the past the army would go after Turkish Kurdish rebel bases but refrain from hitting civilian settlements.

100.   Protesters, mostly militant students and labor groups, waved banners opposing a U.S.-Philippine military exercise on the southern island of Basilan, a key rebel base.