61.   Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat recently ordered an end to mortar attacks, according to Palestinian officials.

62.   Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has pledged swift and harsh retaliation for such attacks, and Israel has carried out several raids following mortar attacks by Palestinians.

63.   Rebels also resumed mortar attacks and sniping on military bases.

64.   A mortar attack on U.N. headquarters cast new doubts on the peacekeeping mission in Bosnia, where both warring sides rallied support to keep on fighting.

65.   A dissident republican group claimed responsibility on Friday for a failed mortar attack on a Northern Ireland border police base.

66.   A Popular Resistance leaflet threatened that the group would retaliate by firing mortars at Israeli targets, though Arafat has banned mortar attacks.

67.   A private Serb news agency described the incident as a mortar attack on two Serb villages.

68.   A second Israeli soldier was wounded in a mortar attack Sunday by Hezbollah guerrillas on the Israeli military outpost at Rihan, the sources added.

69.   After a barrage of heavy rocket fire, Israel seized nearly a square mile of the Gaza Strip in retaliation for a mortar attack on an Israeli desert town.

70.   After the June mortar attack by Hezbollah, Israel retaliated with an airstrike two days later that destroyed a Syrian radar post in Lebanon.