11.   Last month, nine suspected Japanese gangsters traveling together were refused entry in the central Philippines and sent back to Japan.

12.   On Monday, he ordered his forces to close off the border and shoot suspected gangsters on the spot.

13.   Since June several trials involving suspected gangsters of the Vlora area have ended abruptly, most of them for lack of sufficient evidence against them.

14.   Two suspected gangsters fleeing a police raid in southern Russia killed an officer and seized a woman and her children hostage, a news agency reported Thursday.

15.   Indian police said Thursday they had shot dead two suspected gangsters who were members of a gang run by a notorious underworld don.

16.   A student has been killed in Japan by suspected gangsters after a quarrel over the way he parked his car, police and press reports said Wednesday.

17.   Sources in Sarajevo say Croatia is organising a sweep of suspected gangster leaders both in southern Croatia and Croat-parts of Bosnia.