11.   Residents said the electricity had gone out on Friday, the day the military offensive began.

12.   Russian political leaders said Thursday that government troops had moved several miles inside Chechnya, but the military declined to confirm or deny that a ground offensive had begun.

13.   Since the offensive began in late June, with Serbian artillery attacks against villages in areas controlled by the rebels, civilians have emptied large sections of Kosovo.

14.   Since the Russian offensive began in December, military units have several times kept bombing civilians after Yeltsin announced he had instructed them to stop.

15.   Soldiers have fought a handful of skirmishes with rebels since the government offensive began.

16.   The alliance soldiers stood where they had stood when the offensive began.

17.   The Israeli offensive began Friday, triggered by a series of suicide bombings.

18.   The land Ethiopia said it has left was captured only since the offensive began this month, reaching north from the Eritrean border to the town of Barentu.

19.   The latest military offensive began in earnest about six days ago with coordinated attacks by Croatian government troops, Bosnian Croat forces, and the Bosnian army.

20.   The Morales offensive begins today with news conferences in Austin, Dallas and Houston.