21.  It reverses a long policy of allowing various ethnic guerrilla groups to find safe haven along the border, thus providing a buffer against the traditionally hostile Burmese forces.

22.  Karadzic has said the Serbs would treat peacekeepers as hostile forces if NATO air strikes were launched.

23.  Lt. Col. John Allen, the mission commander, received word that a truck carrying more evacuees had been ambushed by hostile forces.

24.  Moreover, consolidated loads could easily be controlled by hostile military forces.

25.  NATO leaders Friday said they would seek a UN Security Council resolution requiring the pullout of hostile forces from Yugoslavia and the return of refugees under international military supervision.

26.  Now, the Saudis are intermittent allies, while Saddam and the Iranian clerics are hostile forces.

27.  On top of the problems apparent in dealing with a civil war, U.N. soldiers might well have the headache of dealing with two openly hostile forces.

28.  One Afghan man was killed and three were wounded by gunfire from unidentified hostile forces on a major road near Gardez and Khost.

29.  Or a lone infantryman in an Asian jungle fighting off hostile forces to rescue injured comrades behind enemy lines.

30.  Senior officials rejected an experimental laser gun that temporarily blinds hostile forces.