1.   That undermined peace talks with President Chandrika Kumaratunga, who later ordered an army assault on the rebel mini-state of Jaffna.

2.   Their departure could clear the way for an all-out army assault.

3.   Combined Croatian-Bosnian army assaults beginning over the summer forced the Serbs to relinquish thousands of square miles of territory.

4.   Deadline passes for army assault on Chechen capital.

5.   Government and UNITA rebels vowed Friday to return to the negotiating table after an army assault in northern Angola earlier this month put the peace process in serious danger.

6.   Government and UNITA rebels vowed Friday to return to the negotiating table after an army assault in northern Angola one month ago put the peace process in serious danger.

7.   He said any decision about launching an army assault across the cease-fire line was a matter of strategy on which he would give no details.

8.   He said any decision about launching an army assault across the cease-fire line was a matter of strategy, but would give no details.

9.   It launched an unsuccessful army assault on the rebels, then tried hiring foreign mercenaries in another futile attempt to break the rebellion.

10.   She has pursued peace talks with communists and Muslim separatists, but ordered a massive army assault against a third rebel group, the Abu Sayyaf.