51.   After wooing Lebed, Yeltsin was launching an offensive on turnout.

52.   After a three-year lull in fighting, Croatia in May launched an offensive that brought retaliatory Serb shelling of Zagreb.

53.   Allied Croatian and Bosnian armies launched offensives Saturday against the Serbs entrenched in central and southern Bosnia.

54.   After midnight Wednesday, the army and police would launch an offensive to push the insurgents northward toward Kosovo, and out of Macedonia, the government said.

55.   An Eritrean government statement said Ethiopian forces had launched the offensive after aerial bombardments and heavy artillery shelling of the same region on Saturday.

56.   Anatolia said the security forces had launched an offensive in the area to capture the assailants.

57.   And so the Myanmar military has launched successive offensives against the Karen, overrunning their major positions and forcing them into a guerrilla war.

58.   Army launches huge offensive against leftist rebels.

59.   Another reason is that the United States and Britain have launched the offensive on Iraq without explicit endorsement from the U.N. Security Council.

60.   Authorities could not launch offensives against the Abu Sayyaf because of the observance of the Holy Muslim period of Ramadan.