11.   Espinola, a salesman for Equinox International, an Amway-like consumer products company, has declined comment, saying he feared retaliation from the government.

12.   Fearing retaliation for the school shelling, residents of Israeli border areas prepared Thursday for a possible evacuation to bomb shelters.

13.   Fearing military retaliation by the Americans, many have headed for the supposedly safe rural areas, or the borders.

14.   Former regional IG Benjamin said that many complaints against management are never heard in Tallahassee because agency employees fear retaliation by their superiors.

15.   He has no reason to fear political retaliation from them because they have nowhere else to go.

16.   Huge bundles of evidence must be analyzed by the FBI lab in Washington, D.C. Witnesses, fearing retaliation, also are reluctant to talk.

17.   However, he said, many are worried about going back to Mexico because they fear retaliation from the families of the men and women they helped to convict.

18.   In interviews on Friday, several other relatives of missing followers declined to be identified by name, saying that they feared retaliation against their relatives.

19.   Israeli policy removes effective terrorist leaders via attack or assassination, and deters other terrorist groups who fear similar retaliation, Ganor said.

20.   Japan, which always shied away from Israel fearing Arab retaliation, is now the second-largest venture capital investor in Israel, after the United States.