1.   Anxious to avoid indictment, peasants trumped up charges against their neighbors, while others accused their rivals of imaginary crimes.

2.   BellSouth counters by accusing its rivals of sabotaging the process by entering the local market halfheartedly, then charging that BellSouth is too dominant.

3.   A combative Bob Dole, blaming President Clinton for the recent spike in teenage drug abuse, Sunday accused his rival of abandoning the war on drugs.

4.   Aides to both candidates accused their rival of misstatements.

5.   He had previously accused his rivals of being afraid because they had rejected his proposal that a speaking order for the debate be announced shortly before the encounter.

6.   In a well-known incident, Netanyahu accused his rival of threatening to make public a videotape that showed him in an adulterous affair.

7.   It accuses its rivals of running to Washington to restrain the company in a business it has not yet entered.

8.   Northwest Airlines filed a formal complaint Tuesday accusing rival American Airlines of circumventing federal rules to reintroduce bias into computer airline reservations systems.

9.   Pepsico sues Coca-Cola in federal court in New York, accusing its rival of forcing restaurants and retailers to carry only Coca-Cola drinks at their fountain dispensers.

10.   Others maintain that candidates themselves can fire back with ads accusing their rivals of lying.