21.   Gunfire exchanges began mid-day and continued during the afternoon until the two camps called a halt to hostilities, police said quoted by the national SAPA news agency.

22.   However in Beirut a Hezbollah spokesman said the exchange had not begun.

23.   After a sharp fall in trade following the collapse of communism in eastern Europe, an exchange has begun to grow again.

24.   The New York exchange began the day with a dip on a slight rise in long term interest rates.

25.   Rwandan guns began to fire back and Goma was rocked by deafening explosions before the artillery exchanges began to die down and street battles with lighter arms were heard.

26.   The exchange began the week nearly half a percent down.