111.   Japan has only recently joined Europe, Russia and the United States in successfully launching rockets which can put two-tonnne satellites into geo-stationary orbit.

112.   McCurry would not say whether Clinton and his advisors were pressing Lebanon to stop the Hezbollah from launching Katyusha rockets over its border into Israel.

113.   Russian jets launched rockets around midday at Chechen positions guarding the road leading to this key town, which Chechen separatists now regard as their capital.

114.   The demonstrators also threw firebombs at the police and launched flare rockets, police said.

115.   The guerrillas also fired rockets at militia reinforcements who were dispatched to the area after the blast and launched several rockets against a nearby militia position, he said.