81.   Two of the Indian fishing boats kept circling the foreign vessels, while occupants of the other boats which have laid siege to the trawlers shouted anti-government slogans.

82.   Van Dijk said men from the Krahn tribe, who laid siege to Tubmanburg three weeks ago, attacked fighters of the Mandingo people entrenched in the town.

83.   With heavy snowfalls and plummetting temperatures, the action by the Serb authorities, who for four years laid siege to the city, has been a windfall.

84.   Yugoslavia was a close ally through much of the war with the Bosnian Serb forces who laid siege to Sarajevo.

85.   Jouret first hit the headlines in Canada in March of last year, when US federal agents laid siege to the Branch Davidian religious sect in Waco, Texas.

86.   Karabat, who is based in Jerusalem, went to Ramallah last Thursday, a day before Israel invaded the town and laid siege to Arafat in his headquarters.

87.   It was impossible to make any estimate of casualties in the battle for Grozny, which Russian troops laid siege to three weeks ago.

88.   Last week Serb forces captured the UN safe haven of Srebrenica and are now laying siege to Zepa, another Moslem enclave.

89.   On Thursday thousands of people laid siege to the Vlora police headquarters calling for the release of the demonstrators.

90.   Police have laid siege to the villages in northern Minya province, the source added.