71.   Thai army sources said the Myanmar military was determined to capture the base.

72.   Thai troops killed seven suspected ethnic Wa guerrillas in a gunfight at the Thai-Myanmar frontier, a senior Thai army official said Saturday.

73.   Thailand has closed its northern border checkpoints with Myanmar because of fighting between ethnic rebels and the Myanmar army, a Thai army general said on Thursday.

74.   Thaksin responded with placatory statements and tried to rein in the Thai army.

75.   Tensions between the two Southeast Asian neighbors have been rising since the Thai army fired artillery across the frontier earlier this month.

76.   Thai army officers have not confirmed the report.

77.   Thai army officials said Thursday that a Myanmar army battalion that occupied part of a northern Thai village is pulling back to their own country.

78.   Thai army soldiers and reporters took shelter inside bunkers while shells rained down along the frontier as Cambodian government troops attempted to destroy a resistance artillery base.

79.   Thai army spokesman Somkuan Sangpataranet told the Ruam Duay Chuy Kan radio station that six mortar shells landed in Thailand.

80.   Thai army units were firing shells in the direction of Burma in retaliation after dawn.