A third soldier was squatting behind an old lamppost about three hundred feet straight ahead, to the north.

Three soldiers squatted nearby rolling hexi-bones for coins which lay in piles before each man.

The soldiers squatted around him curiously.

The Mexican soldier squatted on the sand and put together a small fire.

For shelter, the soldiers climbed into the back of trucks or squatted in a friend's Humvee.

The soldiers outside, wrapped up in horse-blankets, squatted against the walls of the dilapidated building, trying to get shelter from the cutting north wind.

Two orange-uniformed soldiers of the R.S.C. Army were squatting where the small heliplane had been.

Reeking with sweat, caked with dust, hot, thirsty, cursing mellifluously, the soldiers squatted, their backs against great rocks, rolling cigarrillos while they waited for reinforcements.