71.   Opposition field commanders in eastern Tajikistan have blamed police for provoking the fighting.

72.   Other top candidates include separatist leader Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, his security adviser Akhmed Zakayev, former deputy prime minister Movladi Udugov and field commander Shamil Basayev.

73.   Palestinian security officials said Arafat had ordered all police, security, and field commanders to immediately implement a cease-fire.

74.   Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin of Russia said Moscow is also willing to talk to individual field commanders, the Interfax news agency reported.

75.   Raduyev is a former Chechen field commander who gained notoriety in the war against Russia for leading a daring hostage-taking raid in southern Russia.

76.   A group identifying themselves as rebel field commanders said they removed Riek Machar on Monday as the head of the South Sudan Independence Movement.

77.   A Chechen party on Monday nominated another candidate, field commander Vakha Arsanov.

78.   A clash broke out, and one Russian soldier and separatist field commander Rashid Bargyshev were killed, news reports said.

79.   A maverick Chechen field commander claimed responsibility Friday for detonating a bomb inside a railway station in southern Russia that killed two people, a news agency reported.

80.   A rebel field commander, Vashit Murdashev, told NTV that the guerrillas had been pulling out of Gudermes for several days on orders from their high command.