21.   Border patrol police snipers were in positions at nearby buildings during the stand-off.

22.   Both sides said Chechen snipers were on the upper floors of the palace.

23.   But Ecuador accused Peru of attacking its bases Wednesday and Thursday and Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori expressed concern that snipers may be in the conflict zone.

24.   Even when no shells are falling and snipers are inactive, life in this once sophisticated and cosmopolitan city is a tenuous existence of bleak monotony.

25.   Government radio said Serb snipers were more active around Sarajevo because of the good weather and warned citizens to limit movements.

26.   In Sarajevo, snipers were active today, wounding two people, the Bosnian Health Ministry said.

27.   In the last days before the Serbs fled, he even fired tank shells at his own home when he suspected a sniper was inside.

28.   Russian military officers claimed there were rebel snipers inside the palace and separatist fighters mingling with the crowd.

29.   Snipers were active throughout Monday.

30.   The opposition claims the government sent them to scatter marchers, while the government claims the snipers were part of a plot to justify a coup.