1.   Denounced as curs those police officers who deserted their posts during the hurricane and its aftermath.

2.   U.S. officials are seeking the return of a former Army Reserve intelligence unit commander accused of deserting his post.

3.   When the rebels first attacked last fall, the ill-trained and poorly paid government troops panicked, deserting their posts in eastern towns en masse.

4.   Earlier, the fire authority had said that every station was unstaffed and most employees working in the central control room had also deserted their posts.

5.   Eight Russian peacekeepers deserted their posts in the former Soviet republic of Georgia, some of them armed with automatic weapons, a Georgian military spokesman said Tuesday.

6.   Eight Russian peacekeepers who had deserted their posts in the former Soviet republic of Georgia were found Tuesday, their commander said.

7.   Eight Russian peacekeeping troops who had originally been accused of deserting their posts in the former Soviet republic of Georgia had actually gotten lost, their commander said.

8.   Massively outnumbered and bombarded by artillery fire, a regiment of Gurkhas refused to desert its post and fought alongside British troops, helping to crush the Indian Mutiny.

9.   Meanwhile, two servicemen seized two submachine guns and deserted their post in the southern Russian region of North Ossetia, Russian news reports said Tuesday.

10.   Nearly all soldiers and police serving in the south deserted their posts after anti-government protesters began raiding armories and barracks for weapons.