41.   The United States is evacuating its nationals from the city, where a ceasefire was declared Tuesday after four days of factional fighting.

42.   The United States began evacuating its nationals from Albania Thursday but resisted calls for an immediate military intervention to prevent the Balkan country from sliding deeper into anarchy.

43.   The United States, France, Britain and Belgium have troops in Brazzaville, ready to evacuate their nationals if necessary.

44.   Those troops are intended to help evacuate foreign nationals if the situation deteriorates in Zaire.

45.   Troops from Belgium, France and the United States are on standby to evacuate foreign nationals from Kinshasa.

46.   Two helicopters circled over Tirana early Saturday in an apparent resumption of efforts to evacuate foreign nationals from the lawless capital.

47.   Western nations are meanwhile drawing up contingency plans to evacuate their nationals.

48.   Western nations were meanwhile drawing up contingency plans to evacuate their nationals.

49.   US troops in the region are on standby and ready to evacuate American nationals if ordered to do so, the Pentagon has indicated.

50.   Lebanon asked the United States over the weekend to evacuate Lebanese nationals caught in the crossfire, according to the Lebanese Foreign Affairs Ministry.