1.   Prue, Southwestern region speaking on behalf of the C E C.

2.   Another is in the southwestern region of Adjara, which is also in rebel hands.

3.   In Nigeria, Yorubas, cheated of power by northern generals, talk openly of secession for their southwestern region.

4.   The southwestern region, the only one where wolves would remain endangered, would include some parts of New Mexico, Arizona and Texas.

5.   Thousands of Rwandans fled the site, clogging the muddy roads toward Gikongoro, the main town in this southwestern region.

6.   Oyarzabal Txapartegui and two others arrested Sunday in the town of Dax in the southwestern Landes region.

7.   Papon, a former Cabinet minister, was secretary general of the southwestern Gironde region during World War II, in charge of the office of Jewish affairs.

8.   Police have arrested a Paris fireman as a suspected pyromaniac after a series of summer blazes in the southwestern Cahors wine region, officials said Monday.

9.   Ravidat died of a heart attack, announced Jacques Cabanel, the mayor of the town in the southwestern Dordogne region.

10.   A flood warning was issued for tens of thousands of people living along the Kum River in the southwestern region.