11.   In the diamond trading center of Surat, police fired at mobs in the Limbayat neighborhood on Monday, but there were no reports of casualties.

12.   Meanwhile, rebel commanders said they continued to push through the government and Zimbabwean defense in the flat savanna toward Mbuji-Mayi, the southern diamond center.

13.   Other major diamond centers, including London, Tel Aviv, Israel, and Bombay, India, also were tarnished by the illegal trade.

14.   Prince Philip visits Kimberley, the diamond mining center in the Northern Cape province.

15.   Rebel commanders say they are advancing on the southern diamond center of Mbuji-Mayi and on Lubumbashi, the capital of mineral-rich Katanga Province.

16.   Set in fertile, rolling bushland, Nzagi was a thriving diamond center under Portuguese colonial rule.

17.   Soumendu Bagchi, an Indian diplomat, said the problem of child labor in Indian diamond centers is exaggerated.

18.   State-run Radio Rwanda said the fighting took place last week near the town of Kabinda and outside Mbuji-Mayi, the government-held diamond center.

19.   The Global Witness said Belgium, a major world diamond center, had been particularly lax in implementing the U.N. embargo on UNITA diamonds.

20.   The opposition party has strong support in the government-held town of Mbuji-Mayi, a diamond center near the front line.