More tanks guarded either flank of this tightly packed for- mation of iron men and steel machines.

The tanks and other armored vehicles could guard long convoys that would carry United Nations troops and equipment out of Bosnia.

Today, as tanks guarded the suddenly quiet streets of the capital and the Presidential Palace, wisps of smoke continued to rise from four department stores in which more than 200 looters died when other rioters set the stores on fire.

More tanks guard key intersections inside the walls, machine gun towers line the wide boulevards, snipers man firing positions atop palaces great and small.

Sadr City was mostly quiet on Thursday, with American tanks guarding all main access roads into the capital, and closing highway overpasses and bridges.

If she could jump across, then maybe . . . Before considering seriously such a plan, Nicole had to determine whether or not a tank, or equivalent sentinel, was guarding the opposite horizontal tunnel on the first level.

Algiers in the chilly thrall of early spring is subdued: tanks guard the entrances to many bridges and tunnels.

Also this tank that didn't exist to the U.S. military might have been guarding the mint.

The center of the city is blocked by troops, and there are armored vehicles at the crossings, and tanks are guarding Government buildings.

The streets of the capital were deserted and tanks guarded the national broadcast center today after a group of rebel soldiers tried but failed to overthrow President Mobutu Sese Seko.