51.   Two armed Northern Alliance soldiers wrapped in blankets jab their rifle butts at the agitated mob.

52.   When crowds of Afghans gather to gape at us, our equipment, our Western clothes, the soldiers beat the crowds back with whips and rifle butts.

53.   Outnumbered Israeli soldiers fired tear gas, rubber bullets and live rounds and in one case beat protesters with rifle butts.

54.   Other Palestinians were beaten with rifle butts as they lay on the ground.

55.   Palestinians, frustrated over the long delays in a troop pullback promised by Israel, hurled vegetables at Israeli soldiers who beat protesters with rifle butts.

56.   Police beat two doctors with rifle butts and blocked others from gathering at a union hall, where they planned to begin a march Monday to the presidential palace.

57.   A fourth person was hit in the head with a rifle butt, it said.

58.   A Briton kidnapped in Yemen with his family said Monday the kidnappers once hit his teen-age son with a rifle butt, but otherwise treated them well.

59.   A rifle butt shattered a window.

60.   A third elderly woman was hit so hard with a rifle butt that what appeared to be a piece of the gun went flying loose.