1.   The independence wars are not freak events but desperate efforts at cultural survival.

2.   They helped negotiate peaceful settlements to several independence wars.

3.   Mugabe responded to the impeachment measures by threatening to prosecute white Zimbabweans who fought against him in the independence war.

4.   Sharon fought with the pre-state underground military organization as a teen-ager, and as a platoon commander in the independence war.

5.   An appeals court on Thursday declared a man conceived in a rape by French soldiers during the Algerian independence war to be a war victim and awarded him damages.

6.   At the time, France was fighting a brutal independence war in Algeria.

7.   Chechnya has become a center of violent crime, including kidnappings and rampant shootings, since the end of its independence war against Russia two years ago.

8.   Chechnya remains a center of violent crime and frequent kidnappings despite the end of its independence war against Russia two years ago.

9.   Chechnya has become a center of violent crime, including rampant kidnappings and shootings, since the end of its independence war against Russia two years ago.

10.   During the independence war France was shaken to its roots.