41.   The guerrillas earn millions of dollars annually by taxing drug traffickers for each coca-laden plane leaving the region and by providing them with protection.

42.   The region has been left on the edge of a precipice between a collapsing peace and what many fear could be an all-out war.

43.   The region was not left completely without resources.

44.   The villagers said the Uzbeks had not come to disarm them, but appeared to be trying to scare the Pashtuns into leaving the region forever.

45.   Then Asian currencies began to suffer, and money left that region for Latin America.

46.   Then, he will have to defuse the explosion of violence in the West Bank and Gaza that has left the region teetering on the edge of war.

47.   Top FARC commanders, including rebel leader Manuel Marulanda, appear to have left the region.

48.   U.S. peace envoy Dennis Ross is scheduled to leave the region today, after resolving most security aspects of the Hebron negotiations.

49.   Under a cease-fire brokered by the United Nations, Croatian Serb civilians who had been trapped in the aftermath of a Croatian offensive were allowed to leave the region.

50.   Zinni has no plans to leave the region, a U.S. embassy spokesman said Wednesday night.