1.   The activists were shot when they refused to obey an order to halt.

2.   Two lesbian activists were shot to death in Medford, Ore., and many immediately assumed they were slain because they were lesbians.

3.   A fifth activist was shot by police also on Tuesday in a western suburb of Karachi.

4.   A fifth activist was shot by police Tuesday in a western suburb of Karachi.

5.   A known Palestinian activist has been shot dead each day since Monday.

6.   An activist also was shot down.

7.   During the heat of the civil rights movement, three young activists were shot to death and their bodies plowed into an earthen dam outside this central Mississippi town.

8.   For the third time in as many days, a Palestinian activist was fatally shot in what Palestinians called a pattern of Israeli assassinations.

9.   Hours after masked men gunned down a lawyer for a prominent Sunni militant leader Tuesday, a Shiite activist was shot to death in eastern Punjab province.

10.   However, pro-independence movement spokesmen David Ximenes denied reports that a pro-independence activist had been shot to death.