31.   Civilian officials have told of the effort to return life to normal in the areas that federal troops control.

32.   Clusters of rebels hide in impregnable mountains, launching hit-and-run raids on federal troops and mining the roads they travel on.

33.   Federal troops have been engaged in fierce battles against the guerrillas for the past five weeks, seeking to drive them from the southern Russian republic of Dagestan.

34.   Federal troops have been engaged in fierce battles against the guerrillas since last month, seeking to drive them from the southern Russian republic of Dagestan.

35.   Federal troops in the Staropromyslovsky district, taking up all-round defense positions, shot off flares and periodically fired high-caliber machine guns from APCs.

36.   Federal troops commander Vyacheslav Tikhomirov maintained his soldiers conducted no combat actions at the time and place Dudayev was said to have died, according to Itar-Tass.

37.   Federal troops were finally dispatched to break the strike.

38.   Federal troops drove them out, but lost dozens of men and destroyed the village.

39.   For months, the black teen-age boy could enter Little Rock Central High School only when escorted by federal troops, sidestepping the angry mobs and ducking their spit.

40.   He drove a truck that ferried the federal troops assigned to protect the black students.