1.   The conservative winds coursing through Washington are rattling other capitals of the welfare state, like Bonn.

2.   A small earthquake rattled the capital Sofia on Thursday.

3.   After another sharp earthquake rattled the capital on Saturday, scores of terrified people arrived at public hospitals and clinics requesting tranquilizers.

4.   Anti-aircraft fire and the roar of jets rattled the capital, Kabul.

5.   An earthquake shook the former Soviet republic of Georgia before dawn Monday and rattled the capital but there were no immediate reports of casualties or serious damage.

6.   Firefights between unsavory warlords no longer rattle the capital as they once did every night.

7.   Gunfire and sporadic explosions, apparently from rockets fired from hand-held launchers, rattled the capital of Guinea-Bissau on Thursday.

8.   Leftist rebels rattled the capital with nightly car bombs.

9.   The thunder of heavy artillery and rockets rattled the capital.

10.   There were no reports of casualties in the bombing, the first in nearly three months to rattle the capital.