31.   He also sought to counter attacks from the opposition Communists, who marched through Moscow on Thursday in a crowd of thousands and demanded he step down.

32.   He said the two militias, rivals for power inside the Kurdish zone, were now moving into positions to counter an attack by the Iraqi army.

33.   Lawmaker Konstantin Zatulin even said Russia might provide the Bosnian Serbs with air defense systems to counter NATO attacks.

34.   Sharon said in Rome that the Israeli Cabinet has approved a number of steps to counter Palestinian attacks.

35.   Some units have not disbanded in case they are needed to counter militia attacks.

36.   Taiwan has decided to buy U.S.-made Avenger missile systems for its army to counter airborne attack, a newspaper reported Monday.

37.   The British troops are helping train the Sierra Leone army to counter rebel attacks.

38.   The experts were specifically looking at ways to counter possible attack by biological agents such as smallpox and anthrax.

39.   The movement was provoked by ethnic Tutsi rebel attacks on eastern Zaire and anger over a government too weak to counter those attacks.

40.   The travel and other curbs were imposed as a strategy to counter terrorist attacks on Israeli soldiers and civilians.