71.   The barrel was swung around and the Muslims gleefully pummeled Serb positions along the front line.

72.   The land mines and defensive positions along the border suggested Serbs were preparing for attack and possibly trying to create a depopulated buffer zone.

73.   The Nigerian military government said Tuesday that Cameroon was continuing to bombard its positions along a disputed stretch of oil-rich land.

74.   The rebels called a cease-fire earlier this week after driving Zairian forces from positions along the border.

75.   The troops will be deployed in battle-ready positions along the Kuwaiti-Iraqi border on Saturday, U.S. military spokesman Col. Ron Williams said.

76.   Thick smoke billowed Saturday from two contested northern villages as Macedonian troops resumed their shelling of ethnic Albanian rebel positions along the border with Kosovo.

77.   Unknown attackers opened fire late Wednesday on U.S. positions along the western edge of the American base at Kandahar airport, an Army spokesman said.

78.   Yugoslavia has been reinforcing positions along the borders with both Albania and Macedonia in apparent preparation for a possible ground assault by the allies.

79.   Witnesses say Hezbollah troops retaliated by firing rockets and mortars at two Israeli military positions along the border.

80.   Government troops were Sunday pushed back from their positions along the back wall of a nearby school, which they say is now occupied by Wahdat fighters.