11.   Dawson-Hamm was speaking from Taszar, a southwestern Hungarian town where the Americans have set up a supply and logistics base for the Bosnian peace force.

12.   Fallout from the Asian financial crisis is causing a headache in this southwestern French town where cognac producers, alarmed at dwindling sales, are angrily demanding aid.

13.   First reports Monday of the accident near an isolated southwestern town had conflicting reports on the number of dead.

14.   Forecariah, a southwestern town near the Sierra Leone border, is now bristling with soldiers and civilians with rifles slung over their shoulders.

15.   Graf has been serving his term in a low-security prison in this southwestern town.

16.   High winds and possibly several tornadoes hit this southwestern Minnesota town Tuesday night, injuring some people and doing significant damage to buildings.

17.   It was the second explosion in two days and highlighted simmering tensions in the southwestern Bosnian town, which is divided into Muslim and Croat halves.

18.   NATO deployed armored vehicles and troops in the streets of Mostar Saturday after the second shooting death in a week sent tensions soaring in the bitterly divided southwestern town.

19.   NATO planes also struck the northwestern town Paracin, an oil depot in the southwestern town Pozega and a refinery in Novi Sad, Serb media said.

20.   Nine army members were injured when a Turkish military helicopter crashed near this southwestern coastal town Thursday, an officer said.