61.   The death toll has prompted intense criticism of the Colombian army, which in recent months has suffered a string of humiliating defeats at rebel hands.

62.   The government controls Batticaloa city, but the nearby areas are in rebel hands.

63.   The government limits the quantity of cement and steel into Jaffna to prevent supplies from getting into the rebel hands.

64.   The nearest working power station outside the capital is in rebel hands.

65.   The prime issue there is eastern Slavonia, a sliver of land in eastern Croatia bordering Serbia that is still in rebel Serb hands.

66.   The official quoted ECOMOG as saying communications gear had fallen into rebel hands and confiscations were being carried out to tighten security.

67.   The RNA report did not say when the town, which fell into rebel hands last month, was retaken.

68.   The peace accord envisaged ethnically mixed police units, composed of Macedonians and ethnic Albanian officers, patrolling villages formerly in rebel hands.

69.   The road around Dulje had been in rebel hands for most of the past three months.

70.   The Zairian government is struggling to unite the country against the insurgency that has left nearly a third of the mineral-rich central African country in rebel hands.