21.   Gen. Saiyud hopes to have two volunteers at each one.

22.   It has few volunteers and abducts young men and women for military training or for use as porters and cooks.

23.   The defections occurred over about a month, said Aung Myo Min of the All Burma Students Democratic Front, which has volunteers fighting alongside the Karenni.

24.   The London-based Peace Brigades also has volunteers in the Balkans, Sri Lanka, Guatemala, Haiti and Mexico for what are typically one-year stints.

25.   The Hamas group said it had seven volunteers ready to carry out more suicide bombings in Israeli cities.