1.   Government troops advanced on the rebel stronghold.

2.   The combined Mozambican and Zimbabwean force launched major offensives in February and May, concentrating on rebel strongholds in Manica and Sofala provinces.

3.   Also Friday, Russian forces launched artillery attacks on the town of Vedeno, a rebel stronghold in the mountains of southern Chechnya.

4.   And much of this was situated not in rebel strongholds but in regions run by right-wing paramilitaries.

5.   Besides removing troops near rebel strongholds, the president has dismantled dozens of military checkpoints in Chiapas.

6.   A handful of its members later won mayoral elections in former rebel strongholds.

7.   After leaving the Angolan capital, Luanda, Richardson traveled to the rebel stronghold Andulo, where he met with Savimbi to discuss the peace treaty.

8.   But Pristina, like the other cities the Serbs emptied, was not a rebel stronghold.

9.   Government supporters were run off from rebel strongholds.

10.   He also ordered the Mexican army to pull back from roadblocks and encampments near all rebel strongholds in Chiapas.