1.   A long delay in responding to violence in Rwanda a year ago is widely understood to have emboldened rampaging Hutu militias there, followed by vengeance-seeking Tutsi.

2.   A similar downsizing is going on in East Timor, where mass killings were widely reported to have been carried out by rampaging militias.

3.   Starting with Annan, there were condemnations of the killings of three international aid workers, and perhaps a fourth, in West Timor by rampaging Indonesian militias.

4.   As the refugees streamed out of the embattled territory to escape rampaging militias, witnesses charged that soldiers were looting throughout Dili.

5.   The bishop believes Mpongano was killed because he had drawn a gun to defend his congregation in nearby Bare from rampaging militias.

6.   There was no immediate word of any injuries among the U.N. staffers, who had been trapped in the complex by the rampaging militias for several days.

7.   Thousands of Indonesian soldiers and police made no apparent attempt to rein in the rampaging militias, who lit the night skies orange with fires.

8.   U.N. troops would replace the Australian-led force sent last month to rein in rampaging pro-Indonesian militias after the vote for independence.