71.   Port Chester, a struggling village on Long Island Sound, has been courting Home Depot for more than six years to shore up its tax base.

72.   Reporters for the BBC and Agence France-Presse who tried to reach the village on Wednesday were stopped at roadblocks several miles away.

73.   Russia rushed reinforcements to its border with Chechnya Saturday, after several hundred gunmen occupied three villages on the Russian side of the border with the breakaway Caucasus region.

74.   She lost track of her brother and was forced to march as the rebels fought their way through village after village on the way to Freetown.

75.   Several villages on the isolated northeastern coast bordering Honduras remain surrounded by flood waters, their residents taking refuge on the scant high ground or sturdy buildings available.

76.   Some are evident, some lie deeply hidden, as the story of this village on the former border between East and West Germany shows.

77.   Some of those skimishes continued in towns and villages on Sunday.

78.   Taiwan acknowledged Tuesday that its troops had fired at least a dozen artillery shells into a village on mainland China on Monday, wounding four people.

79.   Supporters say it is needed to provide emergency access to a pair of small villages on the outskirts of the refuge.

80.   The base is posh compared with the battered homes and villages on the surrounding Shomali Plain.