21.   A militia leader, Eurico Guterres, said his armed men would bar what he called the East Timorese elite from leaving.

22.   A Texas militia leader who spoke to the group Saturday criticized a recent police alert portraying the Republic as violent.

23.   According to the U.N. high commissioner for refugees, Sadako Ogata, the refugee operation in Atambua was attacked after the death of the militia leader.

24.   Addressing a rally, one militia leader, Eurico Guterres, threatened to begin a campaign of violence if his side loses the vote.

25.   But aside from Southwell, most militia leaders strove to present their organization as a benign, constitutional movement that accepts all races and creeds.

26.   But investigators said that she had also told the local militia leader that she feared she might be killed by Tutsi refugees in the convent.

27.   But militia leaders insist that they turn away far more volunteers for suicide than they can use.

28.   But militia leaders say they are convinced that the FBI and state authorities are actively trying to shut them down.

29.   But other leaflet drops have been ordered over Kabul and Kunduz, in hopes that an opposition militia leader will rally his troops to join the hunt.

30.   But Palestinians here said that the men most wanted by the Israelis slipped the dragnet, and militia leaders were back in the camp on Wednesday.