51.   At the front line in Congo, rebel troops said Saturday the war would go on regardless of events in Paris.

52.   At the frontline in Congo, rebel troops said Saturday the war would go on regardless.

53.   But rebel ground troops in Congo vowed to continue fighting, raising doubts about whether a cease-fire could be achieved.

54.   But they saw mostly rebel troops, not refugees, said Paul Stromberg, spokesman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees.

55.   But, perhaps ominously, rebel troops at the frontline in Congo said they knew of no such plan, and vowed to battle on.

56.   Civilians who fled the fighting said they saw a column of rebel troops moving toward the capital, chasing the fleeing government soldiers.

57.   Chechen rebels surrounded Russian troops Wednesday in the city center as fighting continued for a second day and government forces admitted suffering dozens of casualties in bloody street fighting.

58.   Commander Jean-Pierre Ondekane, who served under Mobutu, said rebel troops on Tuesday cut an oil pipeline in western Congo that supplies Kinshasa.

59.   Closer to the Biaro camp, rebel troops forced other refugees to turn back south at gunpoint.

60.   Crowds swarmed through the palace, looting everything from swimming pool slides to chandeliers, as rebel troops watched.