81.   The rebels are increasingly attacking military and civilian targets in rural areas, claiming they are responding to an army offensive.

82.   The PKK has said in the past that it would retaliate army offensives by launching attacks in big cities.

83.   The rebel boats were carrying hundreds of fighters to reinforce rebel defenses against a major army offensive.

84.   The statement said several guerillas were also arrested during the army offensive, which came after the Maoists attacked a team of security forces patrolling the area.

85.   The three gunbattles are part of a fresh army offensive to target militants who are losing safe cover because of approaching winter.

86.   The uprising has defied army offensives and a peace effort by President Abdelaziz Bouteflika.

87.   The Yugoslav government sharply condemned the Croatian army offensive in Bosnia.

88.   This month, a Croatian army offensive recaptured most of that land.

89.   They were widely regarded as retaliation for a successful Croatian army offensive to retake Serb-held lands in central Croatia.

90.   U.N. officials also reported a Bosnian army offensive around Veliki Skocaj, just south of Bihac, and said there were unconfirmed reports that government forces had advanced.