31.   Every few minutes, the watching crowds scattered and fled as groups of horsemen plowed wildly into the sidelines, whips clenched in their teeth.

32.   Fink, who was a Mercedes sales and marketing executive, fled as law authorities investigated the charges.

33.   Frightened residents of Calabar, several miles from the disputed peninsula, have been fleeing as artillery shells slammed into the coastal region.

34.   He is believed to have fled as pro-U.S. Afghan forces closed in.

35.   His attackers fled as bystanders scurried for cover.

36.   Hundreds of people fled as Serb fighters advanced in the western part of the Muslim-held Bihac enclave, leaving villages destroyed, abandoned or ablaze.

37.   Hundreds of terrified residents fled as shots were heard, and the surprise attack forced the closure of the international airport.

38.   Hong Kong people have yet to come to terms with life under a regime many of them fled as refugees.

39.   Hundreds of peasants fled as government soldiers pursued guerrilla leaders into the jungles of southern Mexico.

40.   Hundreds of residents in the Pakistani part of the disputed Himalayan province were forced to flee as Indian artillery shells hit nearby.