11.   One described a rape and the brutal killing of the victim.

12.   Overall, the French provided peace and security for a population traumatized by months of brutal killing.

13.   The Soviet Russia winery has reopened, recovering after the still unsolved brutal killing last year of its director.

14.   Post-war Yugoslavia holds Serb anti-fascists responsible for the brutal killings of Croats, Muslims and Serb opponents.

15.   Raanan belonged to a dynasty of spiritual leaders of the Jewish settlement movement, and there was concern that his brutal killing could trigger revenge attacks.

16.   A brutal killing of a Jewish settler, apparently by Palestinians, in the West Bank city of Hebron Monday was likely to make the process even harder.

17.   A judge ruled Sunday to extradite Samuel Sheinbein, an American teen-ager wanted for murder in Maryland for the brutal killing of an acquaintance nearly one year ago.

18.   Chetniks were formally Yugoslav royal partisans, yet they were accused of brutal killings of Croats, Muslims and Serb opponents in Croatia and Bosnia.

19.   Clinton talked by telephone with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat after the brutal killings of two Israeli soldiers by a Palestinian mob in the West Bank town of Ramallah.

20.   Despite the denial in the number of victims, it is nevertheless a tacit acknowledgement by the Algiers government of the recent escalation of brutal killings in the country.