71.   It sank soon after it left the rebel coastal base at Nachchikuddah village, in the Mannar district early Thursday, the officials said.

72.   Jets bombed at least five separate rebel bases, according to the official Anatolia news agency.

73.   Khmer Rouge holdouts flee main rebel base in northern Cambodia.

74.   Large-scale combat operations ended long ago in Chechnya, but the Russian military remains active, shelling suspected rebel bases and conducting security raids of towns and villages.

75.   Many are taken to southern Sudan, where they are held at Ugandan rebel bases with the tolerance of Khartoum, which is fighting its own rebels.

76.   Meanwhile, Russian aviation bombed rebel bases in the Nozhai-Yurt and Itum-Kale districts, the official said.

77.   Meanwhile, thousands of Turkish troops struck at Kurdish rebel bases in northern Iraq in an incursion that began Monday.

78.   Meanwhile, Russian jets targeted suspected rebel bases in four districts in the mountains in southern Chechnya on Monday and Tuesday, the official said.

79.   Meanwhile, the Russian military command said helicopter gunships raided two rebel bases and a retransmission station in southern and southeastern Chechnya.

80.   Misna said shipments of military supplies from Uganda are continuing to Kisangani, a rebel base.