21.   Like so many other laid-off Enron Corp. employees, Sue Nix had been looking forward to hearing its embattled former leader explain what happened.

22.   One senior Kabila adviser told The Associated Press the embattled Congolese leader had fled Kinshasa.

23.   One senior Kabila adviser told The Associated Press that the embattled Congolese leader had fled.

24.   Police cleared President Abdurrahman Wahid of involvement in a corruption scam Friday, and the embattled leader defended his record during his first year in office.

25.   President Boris Yeltsin said Monday he will meet the embattled leader of breakaway Chechnya, and he called for the republic to abandon its independence claims.

26.   President Laurent Kabila was shot during an attempted coup on Tuesday, senior Congo officials said, and the Belgian government reported that the embattled leader was dead.

27.   Thousands of Palestinians rallied in this PLO-ruled enclave Wednesday to show support for embattled leader Yasser Arafat and send a warning to his Muslim militant opponents.

28.   They shouted slogans condemning the government and vowed to support their embattled leader.

29.   However, the European Union was taking a softer line on the embattled Palestinian leader.

30.   A delegation of Chavez supporters picked the embattled leader up from the Caribbean island of La Orchila early Sunday and escorted him back to Caracas.