91.   Its tense standoff with Pakistan, a key U.S. ally in the war on terrorism.

92.   Kidnappers holding four U.N. military observers hostage issued a new demand Sunday, upping the ante in an increasingly tense standoff with Georgian authorities.

93.   Looking back, Faltas was able to point to a positive aspect of the tense standoff.

94.   Meanwhile, a tense standoff continued in Shali, a town east of Grozny besieged by Russian troops.

95.   Meanwhile, two French peacekeepers were in their bunkers at a U.N. weapons collection site in a tense standoff Sunday with Bosnian Serbs.

96.   Nuclear-armed neighbors India and Pakistan are in a tense standoff over Kashmir, which is claimed by both countries.

97.   Palestinian gunmen kidnapped two Israeli troops in this PLO-ruled town and handed them to Palestinian police early Thursday after a tense standoff of several hours.

98.   Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov said Thursday that Russia is trying to help defuse a tense standoff between Turkey and Syria, a news agency said.

99.   Protesters regrouped on a nearby road and remained in a tense standoff with police, the radio reported.

100.   President Bush, in a conciliatory gesture, expressed regret over the midair collision that triggered the tense standoff.