41.   He said a pro-independence group blocked a highway and stopped a bus that included an Indonesian army sergeant and a corporal among its passengers.

42.   In Washington, meanwhile, the Pentagon said a U.S. army sergeant was wounded in the hand by gunfire on a road northeast of Skopje.

43.   Indonesia on Friday denied a claim that an army sergeant slain by a mob in East Timor on Christmas Eve had tried to kill Nobel Peace laureate Carlos Belo.

44.   Last Thursday, a Japanese army sergeant was killed after a cartridge case in the gun barrel of a military vehicle exploded at a training facility in western Japan.

45.   Mandela made a convert of Jeffrey Shange, a black army sergeant and soccer fan who said he watched his first rugby game last Saturday.

46.   One smuggler, Zef Kqiraj, claimed he bought the weapons in Albania from an Albanian army sergeant.

47.   Shells crashed in several towns near the market town of Nabatiyeh in the afternoon, wounding two civilians and a Lebanese army sergeant, said the security sources.

48.   Suspected rebels ambushed and killed an Indonesian army sergeant in fresh violence in strife-torn Aceh province, police and residents said Wednesday.

49.   The charges were later repeated by a former army sergeant.

50.   The clash was the second between soldiers and MILF rebels in Basilan since a gunbattle killed five guerrillas and an army sergeant last month.