21.   Abrams tanks thundered down the hillsides, Apache helicopters swooped down firing missiles, and Bradley assault vehicles blasted targets, sending columns of smoke into the air.

22.   An AP reporter took shelter behind some rocks on the edge of the village of Dachu-Borzoi as helicopters swooped down to strafe the woods.

23.   As military helicopters swooped overhead, riot police fired hundreds of cannisters of tear gas and used clubs to break up the demonstration, which had been banned.

24.   As police helicopters swooped overhead, officers erected roadblocks at the approaches to the city center.

25.   As military helicopters swooped overhead, riot police fired hundreds of tear gas canisters and used clubs to break up the demonstration, which had been banned.

26.   As police helicopters swooped overhead, officers erected roadblocks at the approaches to the city center, searching vehicles for weapons while riot police deployed across the city.

27.   At one shopping center in western Harare, a military helicopter swooped over, firing tear gas at looters who stripped a supermarket virtually bare.

28.   Chechen fighters have fanned out to the hills to engage Russian forces trying to seal off the republic and Russian helicopters swooped around the area most of the day.

29.   Earlier, government helicopters swooped overhead and sporadic gunfire continued until midmorning.

30.   Four helicopters swooped over roofs and dumped water on hotspots.