1.   The two opposing forces around Guanajuato prepared for battle.

2.   In early October the army Chief of Staff Gen. Asif Nawaz Janjua had indicated that his forces were preparing to withdraw from the province after restoring law and order.

3.   American forces prepared a broadcast tape urging Haitians to avoid confrontations with Haitian forces.

4.   And as US-led forces prepare to strike against suspected terrorist havens in Afghanistan, observers expect the drug trafficking here to rise dramatically.

5.   As alliance forces prepare to attack, the absence of one man, Ahmed Shah Massoud, will hover over them.

6.   As his forces prepared their pullout late Wednesday, they were assisted by Israeli aircraft, which circled the skies above Jezzin.

7.   As US-led forces prepare to strike against suspected terrorist havens in Afghanistan, observers expect the drug trafficking here to rise dramatically.

8.   A spokesman for the rebel command said that all the top officers were safe and that their forces were preparing a counterattack.

9.   Government forces were preparing to advance on the village and some rebel soldiers in the area seemed in a near panic.

10.   In June, as Yugoslav authorities withdrew and NATO forces prepared to take control, she and other prisoners were transferred out of Kosovo to jails elsewhere in Serbia.