51.   The Dutch vessel was on a routine patrol near Dutch Caribbean territories.

52.   The Israeli army confirmed shots were fired at a patrol near the Erez checkpoint terminal where Palestinians cross into Israel.

53.   The North Koreans were rescued by a South Korean navy patrol near the western sea border Monday afternoon and brought to Inchon, west of Seoul.

54.   The men tried to ambush a police patrol near Butel, a suburb of Skopje, Interior Minister Ljube Boskovski said.

55.   The peacekeeper, whose name was not immediately released, was hit while on anti-sniper patrol near the Holiday Inn, officials said.

56.   The peacekeeper, whose name was not immediately released, was hit while on anti-sniper patrol near the Holiday Inn, said Maj. Guy Vinet, a U.N. spokesman.

57.   The Philippines has stepped up patrols near the island and other contested areas in the South China Sea.

58.   The Lebanese sources said guerrilla infiltrators raked a mechanized Israeli patrol near Beit Leef with machine gun fire and rocket-propelled grenades.

59.   The policemen, who went missing last Friday, were found by a police patrol near Malisevo, a virtual ghost town in central Kosovo.

60.   The policemen, who went missing last Friday, were found by a police patrol near Malisevo.