31.   Clandestine operations by US special forces had started weeks ago, the Washington Post said Thursday, talking of a new strategy.

32.   The training was provided by the Russian Spetsnaz unit, specialising in clandestine operations, including kidnapping, murder and sabotage, it said.

33.   The three were members of the Lebanese Islamic Jihad, which no longer exists but was considered a cover name for clandestine operations by Hezbollah.

34.   US officials have accused the French intelligence service of repeatedly conducting clandestine operations in the United States to obtain industrial secrets from US corporations.

35.   Nearly one-third of all Argentien textiles are produced illegally by clandestine operations, industry officials told AFP Monday.

36.   One CIA source told the Times that a State Department official told an agency officer in Paris not even to conduct clandestine operations against non-French targets inside France.

37.   Sources said Contreras slipped out of his homestead in a clandestine operation designed to avoid detection by police who were keeping eye on him.