31.   Since the confrontation, police had sought several leaders of the two-year-old illegal farmer association that had mobilized local villagers.

32.   The mercury in the river has risen to toxic levels, Herry said, killing plants and contaminating the fish that feed both the miners and local villagers.

33.   The other was the bin-Laden-run camp, the local villagers say and the documents they left behind indicate.

34.   The rebels rely on local villagers and relatives for supplies.

35.   The refugees said local villagers told them that paramilitaries had also killed two elderly adults in their homes, then raped and murdered four or five local women.

36.   The refugees who did trickle out of the jungle, as well as local villagers, told of massacres and mass graves.

37.   They also contend that local villagers can no longer drink water from the river.

38.   They said they had sold their kitchen implements, shoes, clothes, anything they owned, to buy food from local villagers.

39.   To our delight, the local Gurung villagers invited us into their homes for tea and rakshi, the potent local brew.

40.   United States and South Korean investigators said that the bombs caused no injuries, but local villagers said that six people were hurt.