71.   Details of casualties on either side were not immediately available, officials said.

72.   Each government claimed to have inflicted heavy casualties on the other side.

73.   Each side claims to have inflicted heavy casualties on the other.

74.   Earlier this month, rebels inflicted heavy casualties on government forces in the Tavildara region of Tajikistan.

75.   Ethiopia has said it inflicted heavy casualties on Eritrean forces in the latest round of fighting and has denied that any of its aircraft had been shot down.

76.   Eight guerrillas were killed but there were no casualties on the government side, said Brigadier Sarath Munasinghe, the military spokesman.

77.   Eritrea has claimed that its troops had inflicted heavy casualties on advancing Ethiopian forces during weekend fighting in the Horn of Africa war.

78.   He confirmed the attack earlier and said without giving more detail that there was an unknown number of military casualties on both sides.

79.   He declined to comment on casualties on either side.

80.   Gunfire incidents on Monday caused casualties on both sides and threatened to rekindle Israeli-Palestinian violence after a short downturn.