41.   Officials here believe that the authorities in Zimbabwe are not interested in making it easy for white farmers to relocate.

42.   Other white farmers referred to the congressman matter-of-factly with the coarsest of racial epithets before explaining what it was they liked so much about him.

43.   Scores of white farmers fled the area as looters burned houses and stole goods in incidents that continued over the weekend, the farmers union said.

44.   Since the colonial era, the most fertile lands have been held by a small minority of white commercial farmers.

45.   So as politicians talk and interest groups negotiate, many white farmers have taken defensive maneuvers, officials say.

46.   So did J.L. Tillman and, truth be told, most every other white farmer who tills the clay of southwest Georgia.

47.   Soon the white farmers settled on the best land, a well-watered plateau free of the dreaded cattle-killing tsetse fly.

48.   So, instead of actually evicting white farmers, Mugabe uses them as punching bags when he needs to rally popular support.

49.   Some white farmers even bought land that blacks were living on, so they could have their labor.

50.   Surprisingly, say lawyers for the tribe, the more conservative white farmers proved the most willing to strike a deal.