31.   The documents reportedly included an assertion that without Crusader or an equivalent artillery system, soldiers in ground combat would be put at undue risk.

32.   The island and surrounding areas are the site of some of the heaviest air and ground combat during the war.

33.   The extensive firepower indicated heavy ground combat was under way, they said.

34.   The official said tanks were back from the front line, suggesting no heavy ground combat was imminent, although helicopter activity had picked up.

35.   U.S. forces have not been directly engaged in ground combat in Bosnia but U.S. ships and planes are being used to help ferry British and Dutch reinforcements to Bosnia.

36.   U.S. special forces have been involved in ground combat in Afghanistan but no American troops have been killed, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Friday.

37.   U.S. special forces have been involved in ground combat in Afghanistan, killing Taliban and al-Qaida fighters, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Friday.

38.   During World War II, Okinawa became the only site of ground combat on Japanese territory.

39.   Earlier on Sunday, Sam Nunn, a former chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee, repeated his opposition to women participating in ground combat.

40.   Radio Quito reported meanwhile on the ground combat has stopped.