11.   As tragic as that incident was, the dead were nameless and faceless to most Americans.

12.   A military spokesman, while not confirming the number, said the dead were guerrillas killed in an early morning attack on a rebel base.

13.   Almost all the dead are children, the first to fall sick without food.

14.   All the dead were policemen, and Palestinian television carried images of police digging frantically through the rubble of the building to recover the dead and wounded.

15.   All the dead were French.

16.   But in a town where thousands are hungry and homeless, the dead are no longer sacred.

17.   But reporters in Afghanistan who visited the area near where the CIA missile attack occurred have quoted civilians as saying the dead were local peasants.

18.   But the dead are at a disadvantage, and no one knew it better than the man doing the autopsy.

19.   But whether there are more bodies, who the dead were and who killed them remain in dispute.

20.   Clearly the living dead are not yet prepared to reveal all their secrets.