11.   The announcement came as the Zedillo administration sought to step up pressure on the Zapatistas, who abandoned their strongholds before the advancing troops.

12.   The Israeli army insists that the others in the church, most of whom also sought sanctuary from the advancing Israeli troops, are being held hostage.

13.   They describe a hit-and-run war that has exacted heavy losses on advancing troops, but which has gone largely unreported by the Russian press.

14.   Thus far, the advancing Croatian troops have not crossed the supposedly demilitarized U.N. Protection Zone in the Krajina region.

15.   Rebels fighting for the overthrow of the military government used the bodies of their victims to create a roadblock against advancing troops, authorities said Thursday.

16.   According to the Chechen military headquarters, the rebels fired mortar rounds and rockets at the advancing Russian troops, setting eight armored vehicles ablaze.

17.   Advancing Afghan troops found the bodies of seven foreign fighters Tuesday, according to an Afghan commander, Abdul Hanan.

18.   Another said that the journalists were deliberately killed by the advancing Indonesian troops in a house in Balibo after resistance by pro-independence Fretilin fighters had virtually ended.

19.   Around noon the first echelon of the advancing troops entered the area of the atomic explosion.

20.   At the time, Awais and other gunmen were seeking cover from advancing Israeli troops in the old city of Nablus, a stronghold of militants.