1.   Most were soldiers laying mines.

2.   Outside the presidential palace, a green cloth covered a table where soldiers laid their Kalashnikovs.

3.   The broad aim was to make Allied soldiers lay down their arms and surrender to the nice Nazis, who would treat them kindly in Germany.

4.   U.N. soldiers were laying concertina wire at the gate to the airport in an effort to stop desperate crowds from pushing their way toward the relative comfort inside.

5.   In the closed naval town of Vidyayevo, where the Kursk crew was based, goose-stepping soldiers laid wreaths at a monument for sailors who died at sea.

6.   Officers had first said the explosion may have been set off by a land mine laid by soldiers loyal to Koroma as they fled the city.

7.   President Eduard Shevardnadze demanded that the mutinous soldiers lay down their weapons and return to their barracks, and threatened to use force if they continued with the revolt.

8.   Shevardnadze demanded that the mutinous soldiers lay down their weapons and return to their barracks, and he threatened force if they refused.

9.   Soldiers laid siege to Hebron on Friday, barring Palestinians from entering and leaving.

10.   Soldiers also laid mines outside the villages.