31.   Ilascu was subject to harsh treatment while in rebel hands.

32.   It remained in rebel hands.

33.   It was not clear from where Zairian artillery would retaliate, since a large strip of eastern Zaire running along borders with Rwanda and Burundi is in rebel hands.

34.   It appeared to be the first contact between rebels and aid agencies since the region fell into rebel hands.

35.   It said the Chechen rebels were fortifying their positions around Shali and Gudermes, two key towns southeast and east of Grozny that remain in rebel hands.

36.   Just hours before an expected truce was to take effect, fighting raged around the northern Angolan city of Uige, the last provincial capital still in rebel hands.

37.   Knin, the symbolic heart of the Croatian Serb rebellion was recaptured Saturday by the Croatian government after four years in rebel hands.

38.   Lunsar was still in rebels hands, but it was unclear who controlled Port Loko.

39.   Machine-gun fire shook the village as government troops advanced toward a sector still in rebel hands.

40.   Machine-gun fire echoed through the village Tuesday as the government troops slowly advanced toward a section of the town still in rebel hands.