31.   Although the practice of selling children to middlemen has decreased, the villagers are now having to face up to other problems.

32.   Battered human bodies were found Tuesday half-buried in the mud and entangled in sugar cane stalks, rotting because villagers had no gasoline to burn them.

33.   Because the government of the former Dutch colony claims all mining rights, the villagers have little control over how the land is used.

34.   But after several deaths and scores of serious injuries, the villagers have had enough.

35.   Deputy Interior Minister Chamni Sakdiseth Tuesday said the villagers had no need to rally in the capital to press for implementation of agreements made by the previous government.

36.   Even then, villagers will have to confine their movements to homes and yards, marked footpaths, cleared fields and the banks of irrigation canals.

37.   If the dam breaks, villagers would have about two hours to get out.

38.   If the dam breaks, villagers have about two hours to get out.

39.   In Porcon, villagers have never had any doubts as to their candidate.

40.   Many villagers had to cook over makeshift stoves as children huddled in haystacks for warmth.