31.   A battalion of Russian airborne troops was withdrawn from Shatoi in southern Chechnya Sunday, ITAR-TASS news agency reported from the Chechen capital Grozny.

32.   A separate inquiry chaired by the commander of Russian airborne troops, General Yevgeni Podkolzin, had not been made public, the same source said.

33.   Algerian airborne troops wiped out a convoy of armed Islamic fundamentalists coming from Sudan last week, the privately-owned daily Liberte reported Monday.

34.   The command of the Russian airborne troops has said it is categorically opposed to major troop cuts demanded by Defence Minister Igor Rodionov, Echo Moscow radio reported Wednesday.