31.   A government victory at the polls led the rebel leader, Jonas Savimbi, to renew the fighting.

32.   A ruthless, American-educated rebel leader, Charles Taylor, took control.

33.   A Kurdish rebel leader wanted by the Turkish government for terrorism left Italy on Saturday night, the Italian government announced.

34.   A rebel leader, Velupillai Prabhakaran, had proposed the talks, but demanded a respite from the fighting.

35.   A rebel leader said the police came in to attack them.

36.   Abdullah Ocalan, the Kurdish rebel leader, is no democratic hero.

37.   After a night of looting, the abandoned house of the brutal rebel leader Foday Sankoh had been stripped of almost everything on Tuesday morning.

38.   Addressing reporters in commandeered house, the rebel leader, Andre Ngandu Kassasse, asserted that the outside world had completely misunderstood the rebellion.

39.   After losing two top commanders, rebel leaders in Chechnya said Tuesday they were abandoning the capital Grozny, where they had been fighting off Russian troops for months.

40.   After the deal was signed, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright traveled to Sierra Leone and met with the rebel leader, Foday Sankoh.