1.   As Russian troops pressed their attack on the breakaway southern republic of Chechnya, Interior Ministry troops armed with Kalashnikov assault rifles monitored major arteries entering Moscow.

2.   Carter said troops have armed and supported anti-independence militiamen, who are accused of killing civilians and attacking U.N. staff supervising the vote.

3.   Government troops armed some Amerindians, trying to use them in the fight and earning them the enmity of the Maroons.

4.   Last year, Wiranto allowed his troops to arm and train anti-independence militias in East Timor as the territory headed for a U.N.-organized referendum on independence.

5.   The plan involved sending Israeli ground troops armed with short-range missiles to western Iraq where Saddam was known to visit.

6.   TV footage aired by the Globo network showed the penitentiary surrounded by police troops armed with with machine guns, shot guns and tear gas launchers.

7.   Troops armed with rocket launchers were seen massing near the area.

8.   In the South Korean capital and surrounding areas, police and army troops armed with sub-machine-guns and accompanied by sniffer dogs were checking cars at roadblocks.

9.   The move came after Salvadoran army troops armed with assault rifles surrounded the eight-story congress, which the veterans took over on Monday.

10.   Witnesses said troops armed with machine guns and teargas raided homes and barns and searched virtually deserted streets for insurgents and snipers.