51.   Santa Ana winds roared through Southern California, tearing off a roof, overturning big-rigs and turning desert areas into traffic-snarled dust bowls.

52.   The Arabian peninsula, despite its inhospitable climate and vast desert areas, has long been home to Bedouin tribes.

53.   The forbidding desert area, dotted with low-lying mountains, is sparsely populated, with small towns built up around scattered oases.

54.   The military uses the desert area for training, another benefit that could be lost with a deal that would give the land to the Palestinians.

55.   The only fabrics to survive from that time were from the desert areas.

56.   The site is in a remote desert area of Bureau of Land Management property south of Brantley Lake State Park.

57.   The tribesmen then took them to an isolated, desert area in eastern Yemen, according to officials.

58.   Thousands of land mines are scattered in desert areas of Egypt, some left over from World War II and others from the Arab-Israeli wars.

59.   Two months earlier, a U.S. Marine Corps helicopter crashed during a training flight over a desert area in central Jordan.

60.   Tribesmen kidnapped four German tourists and took them to an isolated, desert area in eastern Yemen, the second kidnapping of Germans this month, officials said Friday.