31.   Some aid workers prepared to evacuate Friday as rebels advanced through eastern Zaire, and others were confined to their compounds as violence escalated.

32.   The cocaine was discovered Friday at La Guaira port near Caracas as workers prepared to load five large containers onto a ship.

33.   The workers had been preparing voter lists for October elections, near the village of Somotines on the Coco River.

34.   They said that although it was clear the two campaign workers were preparing to buy votes, there was no evidence votes had been bought.

35.   They were alerted when Syarikat Pembinaan Mitrajaya workers prepared to fell trees along the road for the project.

36.   U.N. relief workers prepared food shipments in neighboring Uzbekistan but said they were waiting to begin moving them into northern Afghanistan until security was confirmed.

37.   Up until last Friday, negotiations were deadlocked and workers were preparing for a strike.

38.   Workers prepared for a police raid by erecting more barricades, news reports said.

39.   Workers were preparing new sections of rail to reopen the Hanover-Hamburg stretch by the middle of this week.

40.   With census workers preparing to call on non-responding households around the nation this week, Albany sees one last opportunity to promote census compliance.