21.   Before daybreak, Israeli tanks surrounded Tamun, a village northeast of Nablus, said the mayor, Bashar Bani Oudeh.

22.   Avidar said some mayors and other Israeli officials participated in the program as teens.

23.   But Zuma said mayors and city council members are the officials with the real power to change the day-to-day lives of South Africans.

24.   City officials said the mayor left because he had other appointments.

25.   City officials said the mayor left because he had other business to attend to.

26.   He was recently sentenced to a six-month prison sentence for injuring a youth during a fight, the mayor said.

27.   Later Friday, firefighter union officials said the mayor and police and fire commissioners poorly handled the situation.

28.   Leftist guerrillas ambushed a group of policemen Friday in the western state of Guerrerro, killing two and seriously injuring seven, the local mayor said.

29.   Like other parts of the nation prone to tornadoes, hurricanes and earthquakes, riverside taxpayers deserve federal help when flooding hits, the mayor said.

30.   Locals are striving mightily, says the mayor, to achieve New England cuteness, with lots of flowers and even a horse-drawn carriage.