1.   A more likely outcome, diplomats say, is that Moi will trounce the challengers.

2.   In the competition to succeed Adam Clayton Powell IV in East Harlem, Philip Reed, a health care advocate, trounced four challengers.

3.   Texas Gov. George W. Bush is expected to trounce Democratic challenger Garry Mauro with important help from Hispanic voters.

4.   A day after easily trouncing one challenger, world chess champion Garry Kasparov belittled the chances of two others who are battling for the chance to face him.

5.   For more than four decades, he trounced every challenger to face him in congressional elections.

6.   Opposition candidate Petar Stoyanov looks set to trounce his challenger from the ex-communist government in upcoming presidential elections, according to polls published by the Bulgarian media.