71.   They told him the U.S. policy has amounted to a public endorsement of the military offensive orchestrated by Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.

72.   Though he found construction and other work, he returned home soon after Israel began its military offensive in Palestinian territories.

73.   Those bombings galvanized support for a new Russian military offensive in Chechnya.

74.   Together the assaults compounded the evidence that the major military Israeli offensive that ended early this month had done little to blunt the Palestinian attacks.

75.   When the recent Israeli military offensive began, the couple called her twice a day.

76.   While Iran opposed the fallen Taliban militia in Afghanistan, it also has condemned the U.S. military offensive that toppled the regime.

77.   Palestinian analyst Ghassan Khatib said that after the Israeli military offensive, the Palestinian public would not tolerate a campaign by their own security services against Palestinian militants.

78.   Pakistan denied any such military offensives had occurred.

79.   President Boris Yeltsin, who has been hospitalized for nose surgery throughout the eight-day military offensive, went home Monday.

80.   President Chandrika Kumaratunga reimposed an economic embargo on Tamil areas in the north, but she did not order a retaliatory military offensive.