31.   Checkpoints guarded by heavily armed Israeli soldiers are common throughout the West Bank.

32.   Children shoot a game of marbles, oblivious to the heavily armed soldiers guarding them only a few feet away.

33.   Clinton condemned the brutality against Haitian civilians a day after hundreds were clubbed or beaten with rifle butts in Port-au-Prince, sometimes in full view of armed American soldiers.

34.   Dozens of armed soldiers dressed in black outfits and ski masks surrounded one of the ranches on Monday night.

35.   Dozens of heavily armed Israeli soldiers, manning jeeps or atop sand bags, encircled the prayer session.

36.   During the years of Israeli rule, such checks and the presence of armed soldiers had drawn bitter complaints from Palestinians.

37.   Each time they went on patrol in Vietnam they walked point, at the head of a column of heavily armed soldiers moving through dangerous territory.

38.   Even the armed soldiers often have only a handgun, and ammunition is short.

39.   Franciscan friars said they had been surprised when an armed Israeli soldier boarded their bus on its way here and walked up and down the aisle.

40.   Fulir let it pass, but he stopped a bus full of armed Serb soldiers that came later, ordering them to hand over their weapons or turn around.