81.   Three armed North Korean soldiers briefly crossed the tense border this week.

82.   Local officials said an elderly civilian was killed in the Poonch district of Pakistan-controlled Kashmir while another was wounded in overnight firing across the tense border.

83.   Meanwhile at the tense border area, UN observers in the demilitarised zone said they were unable to detect how close the Iraqis were.

84.   Skirmishes along the tense border have been a routine occurence.

85.   South Korean troops on Monday extended their massive search for fleeing North Korean infiltrators to the tense border area, helped by US surveillance helicopters, military officials said.