61.   Gunboats of the Israeli navy shelled the Beirut-Tyre highway sporadically, keeping traffic down to trickle on the main supply artery to the south Lebanon battle zone.

62.   He traveled Wednesday into the heart of the battle zone and met with ethnic Albanian militants.

63.   I was in there Monday and it looked like a battle zone.

64.   However, intermittent machine gun fire was exchanged between Indian soldiers and the withdrawing fighters, officers in the battle zone said.

65.   In a statement, the military claimed that Tamils fleeing the battle zone believed the rebels were cornered.

66.   In a statement, the military claimed that Tamils fleeing the battle zone believed the Tamil rebels were cornered.

67.   In a statement, the military claimed that Tamils fleeing the battle zone believed the Tigers were cornered.

68.   In Irbil on Thursday, KDP fighters screamed victory slogans and sang marching songs as they traveled toward the battle zone in any vehicle they could find.

69.   In Bosnia, meanwhile, battle zones were largely quiet with the exception of Sarajevo.

70.   In New Delhi, experts analyzed hundreds of aerial pictures of the four main battle zones to monitor the movement of the guerrillas.