1.   Beaufort, an old Southern town, is a picture of gentility.

2.   He grew from boyhood to manhood in a small southern town.

3.   The unrest in Basra swiftly spread to other southern towns and cities, including Nasiriyah and the Shia holy cities of Karbala and Najaf.

4.   Despite such reports, rebel radio stations in Iran, Syria and Lebanon continued to claim that their supporters occupied a number of southern towns.

5.   It was approaching midnight in the little southern Spanish town, and it was Saturday night on the moonlit Mediterranean.

6.   An Israeli radio report said the attacker lived in Dahariya, a southern West Bank town under Israeli security control.

7.   Antonio Ordonez was born in Ronda, a southern town with deep bullfighting roots.

8.   Armed rebels on Friday remained behind barricades in southern Albanian towns and refused to lay down their arms despite a government amnesty offer.

9.   As in many Southern towns, the end of segregation drove money from the city.

10.   As in many Southern towns, the reality of race relations here falls somewhere between conflict and harmony.