51.   Sporadic gunfire could be heard from over the hills Saturday while police pressed their offensive for a third day.

52.   Sporadic gunfire could be heard from over the hills while police pressed the offensive for a third day.

53.   Still, battles continued as the government apparently pressed offensives in several areas.

54.   The government also was pressing an offensive south of Sarajevo, trying to put its soldiers into position to link up with the eastern enclave Gorazde.

55.   The government on Wednesday presses its offensive for control of strategic hills to stop rebel Serbs from shelling a northeastern town.

56.   The military on Friday pressed its offensive against Kurdish rebels, spreading the fighting to several fronts in southeastern and eastern Turkey, including the biblical Mount Ararat.

57.   The rebel Serbs also continued to press their offensives against the Muslim-led Bosnian army in the beseiged towns of Bihac and Velika Kladusa in northwestern Bosnia.

58.   The violence has flared as Israel pressed its offensive against Palestinians in the West Bank.

59.   The Turkish security forces have been pressing an offensive against rebels based in northern Iraq.

60.   With single-minded firepower and the world watching, the U.S. military is pressing its offensive against an al-Qaida force in a mountainous corner of Afghanistan.