51.   A masked gunman tried to fire a grenade launcher at the U.S. Embassy on Sunday, igniting a gun battle that left the building pockmarked with bullet holes.

52.   A quiet challenge to the violent demonstrations and gun battles that have marked the new intifada have been growing within the Palestinian leadership and the academic and business elite.

53.   A three-hour gun battle ensued.

54.   A separate gun battle earlier on Thursday left three enemy fighters dead.

55.   A third Israeli soldier was killed in a separate gun battle at a post protecting the West Bank Jewish settlement of Nahal Eleisha.

56.   After a gun battle later in the week, Israel amassed a couple dozen tanks on the entrances to Palestinian villages near Bethlehem.

57.   After a one-hour gun battle in which the police captured five rebels and injured two, the guerrillas pushed the police outside the compound.

58.   After a gun battle was quelled by American and Russian intervention, many of them retreated.

59.   After an hour-long gun battle with police, the guerrillas in the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement captured the house.

60.   After a one-hour gun battle in which the police captured five rebels and injured two, the guerrillas forced the police outside the compound.