11.   By the Middle Ages, Dragor was a major shipping town, where the Hanseatic merchants came to buy salted herring.

12.   If the city falls, the Taliban will no longer hold a major Afghan town and will be forced to flee into the mountains or possibly into Pakistan.

13.   In Shkoder, a major northern town, a similar pattern developed, with looting led by Berisha sympathizers.

14.   In spite of this onslaught, the government continues to control major towns in the south like Juba and most transportation routes.

15.   It also is the source of the cooking and heating gas that keeps several hundred thousand people in the city and major towns from misery.

16.   Many more are believed buried under rubble in major towns and cities as well as hundreds of villages.

17.   Most major towns in Maine also have secure water supplies, at least for the coming summer.

18.   NATO troops have secured main highways and major towns, but not villages and the roads that connect them.

19.   No details of these protests, which have reportedly blocked roads near two major towns in central Serbia, have been mentioned on state television.

20.   NATO sources in Kosovo say that DU was also used in the warheads of some Cruise missiles targeted at hardened silos and bunkers around major Serbian towns and cities.