1.   The blast took place at the Ulba metallurgic works, in a workshop producing beryllium for the Soviet nuclear industry.

2.   The blast took place in a nearly deserted parking lot in a mixed, Israeli and Arab, commercial area.

3.   The final trap-rock blast took place on Christmas Eve that year.

4.   An olive green armored personnel carrier with mounted machine guns was parked in the area where the blast took place.

5.   Ambulance crews rushed to the open-air market where the blast took place and were treating casualties.

6.   Four of the injured were in serious condition, said a spokesman for the Ministry of Emergency Situations in Astrakhan, where the blast took place.

7.   Greenpeace, waging a war of nerves with France by vowing to send more protest vessels into the atoll, said the blast would take place Monday.

8.   Greenpeace, waging a war of nerves with France, said the blast would take place Monday.

9.   Greenpeace, waging a war of nerves with France by vowing to send another protest ship into the atoll, said the blast would take place Monday.

10.   He cited evidence about the way the tanks were mounted on the truck, the substance they contained and how the blast took place.