101.   Muhengera said an extensive search for the missing bodies was impossible because rebels hold most of the area.

102.   Muzuri said two boats had bought in rebel-allied reinforcements from Bujumbura to Baraka, a town held by rebels on Lake Tanganyika.

103.   NATO agreed to replace U.N. peacekeepers in Bosnia, but there were still U.N. troops in eastern Slavonia, the last part of Croatia held by rebel Croatian Serbs.

104.   Nyakyi said the rebels had been holding the hostages as human shields.

105.   Not far away, the rebels were holding hostage hundreds of U.N. peacekeepers from Zambia -- their weapons, uniforms and vehicles seized -- and clashes were breaking out.

106.   Nyakyi said rebels were holding hundreds of Liberian, Lebanese and other foreign civilians, as well as African peacekeepers, at a military barracks in the capital.

107.   OSCE officials said it appeared the rebels were still holding most of their positions.

108.   Over the weekend, the government ordered residents of several villages to evacuate and claimed the rebels were holding hundreds of civilians as human shields.

109.   Papua rebels also were holding two Indonesian teen-agers for ransom.

110.   One defense official said government troops were having difficulty taking back the area because rebels held hilly high ground in the two towns.