31.   Hundreds of extra police already have been deployed to troubled areas.

32.   It is unclear how the government will hold voting in troubled areas.

33.   Local officials seemed anxious to report a good turnout as evidence they can manage the troubled area and that most Chechens are content with Russian rule.

34.   Mbeki promised the extra security forces would be on duty indefinitely, trying to bring calm to a traditionally troubled area.

35.   Meanwhile, Bosnian Serb and international police will start joint patrols in a troubled area of northeastern Bosnia, U.N. spokesman Alexander Ivanko said.

36.   Melo said food stocks stored in the region, designated for other troubled areas, were being tapped to help the people of Goma.

37.   Officials from the ministry, however, did not immediately respond to a request to visit the troubled area.

38.   Other merchants closed their stores for two days last week in protest, and Prime Minister P.J. Patterson ordered soldiers and police to saturate the troubled area.

39.   President Boris Yeltsin will meet with feuding leaders of a troubled area in the Russian Caucasus in an effort to settle their violent conflict, a spokesman said Thursday.

40.   Reporters touring troubled Shiite areas over the past week have witnessed arrests of dozens of people, or learned about arrests from villagers.