61.   Supadi denied news reports that claimed that Indonesian troops had recently clashed with rebel guerrillas in the eastern part of Timor Island.

62.   Ten people, almost all of them separatists, were killed over the weekend in Irian Jaya when troops clashed with pro-independence activists.

63.   The agency quoted an unnamed security official as saying troops clashed with the traffickers on Friday in the city of Saravan, near the border with Pakistan.

64.   The ITAR-Tass news agency said Russian troops clashed with rebels Tuesday in the Argun and Vedeno gorges, which lead through the mountains.

65.   The incident underscored mounting tensions in the city, the capital of breakaway Chechnya, where federal troops clash virtually every night with separatist rebels.

66.   The military said troops clashed briefly Sunday with the rebels, but there was no sign of the captives.

67.   The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said government troops clashed with Serb mercenaries hired by the government to protect Kisangani.

68.   The official, who spoke on condition that he not be identified, said government troops clashed with foreign mercenaries hired by the government to protect the city.

69.   The Macedonian government said its troops clashed with ethnic Albanian rebels several miles to the south, outside the border villages of Malino Malo and Brest.

70.   The military said Monday that troops clashed briefly Sunday with the Muslim extremists, but there was no sign of the captives.