21.   The troops from the Dutchbat battalion on United Nations duty defending the town have resorted to eating their tinned rations.

22.   The United Nations says Velika Kladusa is surrounded, but a sizeable government force remains to defend the town.

23.   Today they were closing in on the Serb-held town of Drvar in western Bosnia, and Serb leader Radovan Karadzic said Serb troops were defending the town.

24.   However, the United Nations once again Friday pledged that NATO airstrikes would defend the town from Bosnian Serbs who have been surrounding it for three years.

25.   However, the United Nations once again Friday pledged that NATO airstrikes would defend the town from Bosnian Serbs who have been surrounding it for the past three years.

26.   Army spokesman Shaban Bantariza told AFP that army units deployed to defend the town have beaten off three raids mounted by the LRA since Tuesday.

27.   At the town hall mayor Maurice Voiron defends the town against charges of tastelessness.

28.   Early Saturday, shells were landing in Knin at the rate of one every fire minutes as separatist Serbs drew tanks and men in to defend the town.

29.   The town was reportedly defended by fighters belonging to the Ahmadzai tribe loyal to Hezb-i-Islami of Afghan Prime Minister Gulbuddin Hekmatyar.

30.   The soliders of the Zairean Armed Forces who were defending the towns have now moved into Lubumbashi.