11.   Peres also said he would not allow Jewish settlers in Hebron to carry out their threat to move into abandoned homes in the city or expand buildings there.

12.   A law that Croatia adopted two years ago allowed them to settle into abandoned Serb homes.

13.   Accelerating the returns were reports in the camps of Albanian looters crossing the border to prey on the abandoned homes of refugees.

14.   After watching her north St. Louis neighborhood decline for decades, crime is down and abandoned homes that once served as a haven for drug dealers have been demolished.

15.   Amid shattered villages and abandoned homes in rebel-controlled territory in Kosovo, a lone Serb monastery survives.

16.   Hard-liners on all sides want to cement the ethnic division of the country by preventing refugees from returning to abandoned homes in territory held by other ethnic groups.

17.   He added that any Israeli claims on East Jerusalem would bring on Palestinian counterclaims on abandoned homes in the virtually all-Jewish western sector.

18.   He also said many abandoned Serb homes were looted and set on fire.

19.   In a trip Saturday to Talipao, an Associated Press reporter saw many abandoned homes.

20.   In Ilidza, gangs from government-held Sarajevo have wreaked vengeance or simply let violence rip in their looting of abandoned Serb homes.