21.   As the fighting raged, Yeltsin told his Security Council that the rebels had been driven out of Grozny, the ITAR-Tass news agency reported.

22.   But a top military official said there was little chance of peacekeepers driving rebel Serbs out of town.

23.   But the rebels were driven out of their Croatian stronghold a month ago and have suffered their first defeats in Bosnia over the last several months.

24.   Congolese and Angolan troops have driven rebels from the southwest of the Republic of Congo after two months of fierce fighting, the Congolese army said Thursday.

25.   Daluwatte, who took office on Wednesday, said his strategy would be to drive the rebels into the jungles and reduce the level of violence.

26.   Despite a strong presence in Kasese in the foothills of the Rwenzori Mountains, the army appears unable to drive the rebels from surrounding forests.

27.   Despite Russian promises that the rebels will be driven out soon, it appeared unlikely that the fighting was about to end.

28.   Earlier, government-allied troops failed to drive the rebels from Goma, a city on the edge of Lake Kivu.

29.   Fierce fighting raged around a former Soviet missile base Thursday as Russian forces tried to drive out rebels hiding in old rocket silos, officials said.

30.   Government-allied troops took the town of Kibumba after an earlier bid to drive the rebels from Goma failed.