51.  The press speculated that he had been silenced on the orders of officers with the elite forces.

52.  The Sydney Morning Herald reported this week that a strike by the Australian elite force, the Special Air Services, had been considered.

53.  The Sydney Morning Herald said a strike by the Australian elite force, the Special Air Services, was considered.

54.  This elite force is held in reserve to repel any attack on the Panshir valley, his homeland and bastion.

55.  Udugov said that the hijacking of a schoolbus by four armed gunmen last week was used by Moscow elite forces as a smokescreen to penetrate Chechen territory.

56.  Many officers who were dressed like pilgrims mingled with the crowds, while elite forces patrolled the area in jeeps mounted with machineguns.

57.  Military officials in the south said elite Philippine forces were on standby to rescue two Americans and one Filipino held hostage for months by the Abu Sayyaf on Basilan.

58.  No one claimed responsibility for either attack and no arrest was immediately reported, although police and a para-military elite force patrolled the streets.

59.  Paratroopers from elite forces have been brought in from the city of Rostov- on-the-Don, an AFP reporter observed.

60.  Peres also said Iran had deployed elite Revolutionary Guard forces in Lebanon.