1.   Portuguese and Brazilian military planes flew in to evacuate foreigners.

2.   Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, however, was firmly opposed to any agreement on evacuating the foreigners.

3.   Ms. Ghedini, the refugee agency spokeswoman, said that at one point her agency considered evacuating all foreigners from the area.

4.   The reports could not be confirmed, because foreigners have been evacuated from most rural areas and roads are blocked by militia gangs.

5.   Thousands were crammed into the stadium, where U.N. officials had set up a processing center to evacuate foreigners.

6.   A U.N. convoy prepared to evacuate foreigners and aid workers ahead of what could be a bloody battle for control of northern Afghanistan.

7.   Fighting between renegade soldiers and government troops raged in the capital of Guinea-Bissau on Thursday while foreigners were evacuated by ship from the West African nation.

8.   Fifty three foreigners also were evacuated on French military planes Monday.

9.   French troops were preparing to enter the areas of Brazzaville heaviest hit by urban warfare on Tuesday to evacuate foreigners unable to reach the airport.

10.   ITALY-ALBANIA, Italian military evacuates foreigners from Albania.