11.   Broad-based economic cooperation along the Danube has been hindered for decades, first by communism and later by wars in former Yugoslavia.

12.   Halter drove in a run with a bunt and Fick hit a two-run homer, his fourth of the season and first by a Detroit catcher.

13.   Scientists will have to test the process first by transplanting the pig organs into other animals, such as baboons.

14.   Serbs, based in the southern Croatian city of Knin, have conditioned their pullback on withdrawal first by the Croatian forces.

15.   The fourth-grade students at the New Covenant Charter School should be used to being first by now.

16.   The Kirisame was nudged out of its berth first by a tugboat.

17.   Then came heart transplants, first by Dr. Christian Barnard in South Africa and next by two Americans, Drs. Norman Shumway and Denton Cooley.

18.   Israel justified the shelling on Kfar Tebnit by saying Hezbollah had violated the truce first by firing rockets from inside the village.

19.   Madang has also been occupied by foreigners, first by the Germans.