1.   In some stricken towns, newly arrived foreigners found no organized rescue effort under way and took charge themselves, directing battalions of eager volunteers.

2.   Iranian military planes and trucks were then moving the supplies to the stricken towns.

3.   Local officials arranged direct air shipments of drinking water, canned food and milk to a few stricken towns.

4.   National Guard helicopters were used to search for stranded people and to shuttle food to stricken towns where grocery shelves are bare.

5.   Premier Edouard Balladur, visiting one stricken town Tuesday, announced the establishment of a special low-interest loan program for small- and medium-size businesses.

6.   Stricken towns dig out from earthquakes.

7.   Telephone communications to stricken towns and villages remained down.

8.   The Jordanian capital of Amman, with a million and a half people, took on the feel of a stricken small town.

9.   Worried friends and relatives jammed the main hospital at Cochabamba, trying to find loved ones among the injured coming in from the stricken towns.

10.   A thousand shells a day were falling on the stricken town in the final weeks, Croatian sources estimate.