1.   Bombs from Russian warplanes fell on this rebel capital early Monday, triggering fears of an all-out civil war in this breakaway Muslim region.

2.   According to subsequent, unconfirmed reports from Chiapas, however, at least two army soldiers were killed or wounded in fighting near the rebel capital of Guadalupe Tepeyac.

3.   Croatian soldiers swaggered through this captured Serbian rebel capital on Monday, consolidating and celebrating a triumph that has altered the Balkan balance of power.

4.   Friday afternoon, however, government officials said that at least one army soldier had been killed by a sniper near the rebel capital of Guadalupe Tepeyac.

5.   Growing numbers of reluctant Russian troops have refused to advance on this rebel capital or are ready to profer resignations rather than slaughter blameless civilians.

6.   --MAGUMED KHACHKEYEV, a soldier defending Grozny, the rebel capital.

7.   The president arrived at the rebel capital with an impressive entourage made up of government officials and foreign correspondents headed by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

8.   Yet he told Defense Minister Pavel Grachev that he was surprised to learn that the bombing of the rebel capital had continued.

9.   A top Russian military commander was killed in Grozny Saturday as Russian forces sent shells and rockets raining onto the rebel capital, setting the presidential palace ablaze.

10.   Both sides have been trying to build up forces since the fall of the rebel capital of Jaffna city in the north last December.