31.   Village elders were consulted.

32.   Young people drift away to towns, and village elders deplore the loss of Dogon traditions.

33.   Radio and television announcements blare the same message, and the government asks village elders to try to persuade young people in rural Sri Lanka to fight.

34.   Abil said the northern alliance has sent radio messages to Taliban commanders as well as village elders throughout Kunduz province, on the border with Tajikistan.

35.   Abil said the northern alliance has sent radio messages to Taliban commanders as well as village elders throughout Kunduz province.

36.   Ahad said he was overjoyed when village elders visited him in prison and told him that the Taliban had been defeated.

37.   All the victims were Indian women, children and village elders.

38.   Another candidate might emerge in talks with clan leaders, village elders and religious authorities in Chechnya.

39.   Artillery thundered in the distance as village elders in tall gray Astrakhan hats and long black coats presided over the funerals.

40.   At the hillside burial site, however, village elders read out messages of condolence and support from the KLA.