1.   As a precaution, fire-spotting patrols have begun fanning out south and west of Kanan Road.

2.   As the regular foot patrols began, the United Nations expressed optimism.

3.   Guard patrols began Friday at Detroit, Minneapolis-St. Paul and Louisville, Kentucky, and at all commercial airports in Massachusetts and Florida.

4.   He did not elaborate on when the patrols would begin or how the command structure would operate.

5.   The Greek general army staff countered the report saying a Turkish border patrol began firing in the direction of Greek soldiers, who returned the shots.

6.   They say thefts appear to have gone down since the special patrols began a few years ago.

7.   Witnesses said some patrols began house-to-house searches and beat residents who resisted with riot sticks.

8.   Following the peace accord, Macedonian President Boris Trajkosvki pardoned several dozen former guerrillas and mixed police patrols began deploying in the former combat zones.

9.   Earlier Saturday in Gaza City, the head of the Palestinian police force Nasr Yussef said joint Israeli and Palestinian patrols had begun operating in the Strip.

10.   Under the Dayton peace accords, the town is eventually to be reunited under a joint Moslem-Croat administration, and joint police patrols have now begun.