1.   Francois, the Haitian police chief who has the allegiance of the plainclothes gunmen, was reported to have left the country on Tuesday.

2.   He recalled the sight of plainclothes gunmen firing into the crowd of several thousand students from atop the buildings around the plaza.

3.   The distinction is probably lost on Francois and the dozen plainclothes gunmen guarding his crumbling empire.

4.   Venezuelan television showed plainclothes gunmen firing wildly, using semi-automatic handguns, as people scrambled in fear through streets shrouded in the smoke from police tear gas.

5.   Venezuelan television showed plainclothes gunmen firing wildly, using semiautomatic handguns, as people scrambled in fear through streets shrouded by the police tear gas.