At the same time, hospital officials in the Gaza Strip reported that 14 Palestinians were wounded by live gunfire in violent skirmishes with soldiers.

They had fought three violent skirmishes and acquitted themselves well.

It was one of the more violent skirmishes in a battle for boyhood that is spreading across the fields of play.

They canvassed neighborhoods, distributed leaflets, recruited new members and often engaged in violent skirmishes with young Communists.

After some violent skirmishes the rebels were defeated and forced to surrender.

Days later, a half-dozen people were arrested in another violent skirmish in Manhattan.

Ethiopia: Government prosecutors withdrew charges against 18 out of 129 opposition figures and journalists facing charges following last year's violent skirmishes in the country.

Early today, troops entered one of the camps and, after violent skirmishes, confined some 300 Cubans believed to have taken part in the riots.

It appeared that most of the others were killed in violent skirmishes on Saturday, he said.

John McMillan is wracked with guilt over his involvement in a violent skirmish, in which a man was killed.