That was two summers ago, when Pakistani troops and militia seized Himalayan heights in the Kargil area of Indian-ruled Kashmir.

He relented only after Yugoslav troops and Serbian militias had seized Croatian areas where nearly 600,000 Serbs lived before the fighting started.

In the Adriatic port of Ploce, meanwhile, air force fighters strafed arms warehouses after Croatian militias seized them this morning.

Many were warned to abandon their homes, which the Kurdish militias were seizing for themselves or awarding to the families of peshmerga casualties.

United Nations officials said the two drops of 15 tons of rice would be enough to feed 15,000 people for one day, if the roving militias who threaten them do not seize the food first.

How indignant they became when the militia seized them and hoisted them aloft!

Four of the privateer's crew swam ashore, where the militia seized them.

Irkutsk's militia seized about 400 pounds of drugs last year, well ahead of previous years but a pittance in comparison with the total traffic.

With army protection from the air and armored columns on the ground, the militias in Croatia have seized huge chunks of the republic, leaving it more or less in four pieces.

But militia loyal to General Dostum had seized control in four districts throughout the province, they said.