111.  The government sent a special armed force from Khartoum to Port Sudan, with a team from the ministries of Interior, Information and Presidential Affairs, SUNA said.

112.  The Israeli soldiers exchanged fire with an armed Palestinian force, the military said, and hit the gunmen.

113.  The Indonesian government has resisted calls for an armed U.N. peacekeeping force in East Timor.

114.  The mediator, Russian diplomat Viktor Chernomyrdin, suggested Friday that Milosevic might agree to an armed force in Kosovo under certain circumstances.

115.  The lightly armed force would secure the city until a new government can be established, Gen. Haji Almaz Khan said.

116.  The lightly armed U.N. force, made up mostly of French and British troops, has been widely criticized as ineffective.

117.  The Rwandan-backed Congolese Rally for Democracy, the main rebel group in control of much of eastern Congo, is the only armed force in Kisangani.

118.  The poorly armed Biafran forces were defeated.

119.  The prisoner issue has sparked almost daily West Bank riots between Palestinian stone-throwers and armed Israeli forces and has led to the deaths of two Palestinians.

120.  The U.N. Security Council on Saturday called on Bosnia and Croatia to stop blocking the full deployment of a heavily armed U.N. force designed to protect peacekeepers.