1.   On the most cruel days, he said, they focused punches and baton blows on his kidneys and liver.

2.   No serious injuries were reported in the police action outside the mosque but witnesses said scores of people were bruised by baton blows.

3.   No serious injuries were reported in the police action but eyewitnesses said scores of people were bruised by baton blows.

4.   Several were herded into the Harare police station with bruises and cuts and blood spattered on their clothes from baton blows, witnesses said.

5.   There were no official reports of injuries or arrests, though witnesses said some students appeared to have been hurt by baton blows.

6.   Here, two dozen fighters in black kimonos and sneakers unleash a lethal combination of strangulation holds, pinwheel kicks and baton blows designed to incapacitate an attacker.