21.   It happened on Sunday in Freetown, the embattled capital of the West African country.

22.   Italian envoy Guiseppe Cassini met with both leaders at the Hotel Ramadan on the imaginary green line that divides the embattled capital.

23.   Jordan, an American firefighter from Bristol, R.I., has been chief of the U.N. fire-fighting operation in the embattled capital for the last two years.

24.   Lissouba surprised observers Monday when he left the embattled capital to attend Independence Day celebrations Kinshasa, the capital of the newly named Democratic Republic of Congo.

25.   More supplies for the embattled capital were planned Wednesday provided the ceasefire held.

26.   On Monday, Kabila has left his embattled capital for the second time in a week and headed to the southern city of Lubumbashi.

27.   President Boris Yeltsin all but admitted Friday the Chechen war is out of his control and grilled his ministers about Russian air and artillery attacks on the embattled capital.

28.   Several hundred Chechen fighters have abandoned positions in their embattled capital of Grozny and escaped despite a Russian blockade.

29.   The first two relief convoys to the embattled Chechen capital are expected to head for the city early Sunday, the Red Cross said.

30.   The government was reinforcing its defensive perimeter around the embattled Afghan capital Thursday in anticipation of a renewed opposition assault, a Defense Ministry spokesman said Thursday.