11.   The gunmen reportedly set up a roadblock and stopped one of eight buses that were carrying banana workers to a farm.

12.   The leftist guerrilla group is feuding with former rebels, some of them banana workers, who formed their own political movement.

13.   They said many banana workers will be out of work for months, without income to support their families while the replanting is done.

14.   Thousands of Filipino banana workers began receiving compensation this week from three U.S. manufacturers of a pesticide that causes sterility, lawyers said Thursday.

15.   We employ no banana workers to speak of in the United States.

16.   At about the same time another group of rebels attacked and killed seven banana workers in another settlement near Turbo.

17.   Banana workers took refuge in nearby villages after the paramilitary group threatened to kill tham if they did not leave the banana plantations.

18.   The group also included environmentalists and banana workers rendered infertile by chemicals used in growing the fruit and who have tried sue the US companies they worked for.