31.   In the atmosphere of panic that gripped Sar Cheshma Thursday, many villagers said the Taliban were worse than the Russians.

32.   In places like Senegal, villagers are saying goodbye, perhaps forever, to the ravages of guinea worm disease, river blindness and other chronic ills.

33.   In two closely supervised hours roaming around Makobola, reporters saw no mass graves, though several villagers said there was one several miles away.

34.   Iraqi Kurdish villagers said on Friday that Turkish planes had bombed several remote settlements in the Metina mountains.

35.   It was not clear whether the individual graves were what the villagers said they saw being dug by the equipment in April.

36.   Its target was a Taliban truck that villagers say had driven off a half-hour before.

37.   Judging from what the villagers say, the refugees seem to be fairly well organized.

38.   Local villagers later said they were recruited for burial details.

39.   Many of the women had been raped and others were forced to pose naked for Arkan soldiers who wanted to take photographs, the villagers said.

40.   Local villagers said the executions took place on Saturday morning, two days after the village came under siege by the Yugoslav army and Serbian police.