1.   In return the BRA undertook to surrender its weapons and prisoners to a multinational peacekeeping force drawn from other Pacific countries.

2.   Since the spread of Asian economic flu through Japan and other Pacific countries over the past year, Canadian tourism has been hit hard.

3.   The European Union has conceded that its regulations have favored bananas from African, Caribbean and Pacific countries that were once colonies of European nations.

4.   The hardening of attitudes reminded many that violence, even in a country so pacific that it put a maple leaf on its flag, is not impossible.

5.   The Pacific countries are moving slowly toward freer trade, while giving up the pretense that they will drop all trade barriers anytime soon.

6.   The strongest protests have come from Australia, New Zealand, and other Pacific countries.

7.   Pacific countries must definitely look into the problems of trade inequality.

8.   Pacific countries were among the most vocal opponents of this latest blast series.

9.   Asia and Pacific countries need to change social structures and values to suppress the spread of AIDS, experts preparing for an international conference said Wednesday.

10.   But two brief substitutes appearances for Western Samoa in a tournament eight years ago have left him tied to the south Pacific country.