61.   Silence fell as people huddled around radios and cameramen wearing earphones, straining to hear above the thunder of circling news helicopters.

62.   Smoke billowed overhead and the sound of rubber-bullet fire could be heard above the din of holiday festivities.

63.   They shout because how else could anyone be heard above the ever-present din?

64.   You hear it above the chaos of a Serbian prison riot, as inmates negotiate with their captors by cellular telephone.

65.   Meanwhile jet fighters and heavy govrnment anti-aircraft and missile fire were heard above Kabul Monday morning, but no further information was immediately available on the incident.