21.   Last year, in front of many witnesses, the Chenalho County mayor, a government supporter, threatened to murder Chanteau.

22.   Madzura, who was stabbed in the same assault, contradicted him, saying they had been attacked by rival government supporters.

23.   On Sunday, hundreds of government supporters waved Venezuelan flags, drank beer and listened to salsa music outside the Miraflores palace, which was spray-painted with pro-Chavez graffiti.

24.   Since then Islamic terrorists have targeted women, intellectuals and foreigners as well as government supporters.

25.   Some opposition members would also benefit from the amnesty, although election observers have attributed most of the pre-election violence to government supporters.

26.   Starcevic, an unemployed tourist guide, was apparently trampled to the ground on a city bridge during a melee between government supporters and opponents.

27.   The first group includes the gas and oil industry and its government supporters, including Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin.

28.   The opposition reported that hundreds of government supporters stoned the opposition party headquarters in Harare, the capital.

29.   The opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change, has accused government supporters in the killings of four of its members in recent days.

30.   The observer group was also held up for hours in inspections by immigration officials and blocked by hostile government supporters from entering one Indian village to interview refugees there.