11.   Most of the camps were set up last summer by French troops as a safe zone for Hutu fleeing a victorious rebel army led by the Tutsi minority.

12.   Officials are trying to muster support for a plan to set up protected corridors along the main highways, safe zones through which the refugees could pass.

13.   Put hot stuff such as coffee or tea in a safe zone in the middle of the table, out of reach of toddlers.

14.   Several months ago, the rebels complained that the Colombian army was flying over the safe zone and setting up roadblocks.

15.   Since hurricanes usually track west or northwest and rarely south, Aruba is in a relatively safe zone.

16.   Spycalla and her husband recently bought a house in the safe zone.

17.   The betting here is that it had, at least to venture tentatively out of the safe zone because the potential rewards were so great.

18.   The official camps and even the unofficial ones are safe zones for the ethnic Albanians who fled for their lives from their villages in Kosovo.

19.   The proposed safe zones should not become semi-permanent camps like the now-emptied ones in eastern Zaire, said Bemilliano in his appeal for international intervention.

20.   Top Colombian military commanders were meeting this afternoon to review their contingency plans for dislodging the rebels from the safe zone, according to Colombian press reports.