21.   Advocates for gay and lesbian rights in the armed forces say the Air Force is conducting a witch hunt in Hawaii.

22.   After his testimony, McCaffrey said he was suggesting a debate about legalization, not a witch hunt.

23.   Bowing to her huge popularity among party activists, the ANC dismissed the court judgment as a political witch hunt.

24.   But in an interview at the hilltop palace he inherited, Muluzi said his country cannot afford a witch hunt, even if it wanted one.

25.   But it is on an incredible witch hunt, fueled, as witch hunts always are, by incredible fear.

26.   But many white South Africans believe it is a political witch hunt designed to further discredit the former National Party government.

27.   But many whites say the commission is on a witch hunt aiming to humiliate former government officials and Afrikaners in general.

28.   But once a witch hunt is started, it seems increasingly hard to make rational distinctions.

29.   But military leaders oppose a thorough investigation, likening it to a witch hunt and accusing supporters of the plan of exaggerating the situation to obtain belated revenge.

30.   But the disturbing thing beyond that is that this has been a witch hunt. . . .