11.   By last Wednesday, Russian soldiers shivering in the fields surrounding the village had run out of food, water and batteries for their radios.

12.   During the visit of the deputy minister and his entourage, Cheng said, the village was surrounded by the police.

13.   Heavily armed police and paramilitary units, backed by helicopters, armored personnel carriers and heavy antiaircraft guns, surrounded four villages in western Kosovo.

14.   In the rich green rice fields that surround the village, amid the murmur of frogs, farmers bent and straightened under their conical hats.

15.   Jagged brown peaks and bare rocky slopes surround the village, while a few snow-capped mountaintops tower before a crystal blue sky.

16.   Pressure for authorities to act mounted as makeshift leper colonies and rumors of epidemics surrounded the village.

17.   Speaking through an interpreter, the farmers described the night last September when soldiers surrounded their village and fired indiscriminately, wounding one woman.

18.   The road was studded with sharp rocks, as were the fields that surrounded the village.

19.   The soaring peaks that surround this village make farming impossible, so local people turned very long ago to crafts.

20.   The small Slavic village is indeed surrounded by three towns overwhelmingly populated by ethnic Albanians.