71.   The victim was a local official for the Nationalist Action Party, whose followers have filled the ranks of special forces fighting the guerrillas in southeastern Turkey.

72.   The U.S. military on Friday denied claims by the Tamil separatists that it is helping Sri Lankan forces fight the guerrillas.

73.   The United States has been supporting the poorly equipped Philippine military with weapons and training to fight the guerrillas, who have become notorious for taking foreign hostages.

74.   The U.S. contribution is largely military aid to help Colombia fight leftist guerrillas who partly finance their insurgency by protecting coca growers and cocaine laboratories.

75.   The U.S. military has indicated it may provide equipment and training to help the Philippine army fight the guerrillas.

76.   Those battalions will fight guerrillas, who finance their insurgency by protecting drug producers.

77.   Three children were killed by a landmine Wednesday in northern Guatemala, where the government is fighting leftist guerrillas, authorities said.

78.   Turkey, which has been fighting Kurdish guerrillas seeking an independent Kurdish state inside Turkey, opposes the creation of an autonomous Kurdish region in northern Iraq.

79.   Turkish forces have long been fighting Kurdish guerrillas in the eastern part of the country.

80.   Turkey often sends troops into northern Iraq in the spring after the snow clears to fight guerrillas who maintain bases in the area.