11.   But a first attempt by Western reporters to talk to the family of the victims was angrily aborted by the Taliban.

12.   But she seems painfully shy, even after some years of nosy questions by Western reporters.

13.   But these days, the emphasis is not on taking Western reporters captive but on welcoming them and convincing them of the legitimacy of the Hezbollah cause.

14.   But Western reporters in Kosovo have written that once the bombings began, the Serbian paramilitaries went on a rampage and the bombing made the ethnic cleansing worse.

15.   But then they disappeared and I, like the few other Western reporters remaining in Nanjing, was free to move about and file articles.

16.   By the time I got to Moscow, Western reporters had gone from being good props in his campaign for exposure to political poison.

17.   Fernandes said the attacks on Christians, while serious, had been blown out of proportion by Western reporters.

18.   From the day of the bombing, the Saleh government has contrived to deny Western reporters free access, watching carefully where they go and whom they see.

19.   He offered to escort a Western reporter through the desert to the gates of the city to prove that this was so.

20.   He looked closer and frowned as he recognized only Western reporters.