1.   Though the invasion had stalled, by the last week in February, Allied troops were vigorously retaliating.

2.   At least eight rebels were killed when the troops retaliated with mortars and artillery fire, said Major D.A.R. Ranawake, a military spokesman in Colombo.

3.   At least eight rebels were killed when the troops retaliated with mortar and artillery fire, said Major D.A.R. Ranawake, a military spokesman in Colombo.

4.   Bar-Zohar said he kept quiet about the killings because he feared Arab troops would retaliate.

5.   Bar-Zohar said he kept quiet about the killings of the three POWs he witnessed becaused he feared Arab troops would retaliate in kind.

6.   Even before Yeltsin could sign the cease-fire order, Defense Minister Pavel Grachev warned that Russian troops would retaliate heavily for any attack by Chechen rebels.

7.   Federal troops retaliated, the military command said.

8.   Federal troops retaliated by pounding the Nozhai-Yurtovsky district, not far from the border with Dagestan, and Kurchaloevsky district.

9.   Grachev had warned that his troops would retaliate heavily for any attack by Chechen rebels.

10.   He said government troops retaliated with mortar and gunfire, forcing the rebels back.