51.   A fire ripped through the compound, killing scores of people, including the leader David Koresh.

52.   A spokesman for the Islamic fundamentalist Hamas movement, whose military wing has killed scores of Israelis in attacks, warned Saturday that more violence was imminent.

53.   A series of mudflows last year killed scores of people.

54.   A wild card in the statehood maneuvering is Hamas, the militant Islamic group that opposes any peace with Israel and has killed scores of Israelis in suicide bombings.

55.   According to Tchang, clashes in the Iviri region in June have killed scores of villagers.

56.   Also, the country has faced Islamic uprisings in the isolated south this year and last that killed scores of people.

57.   Akram Alkam spent the last week of his life reading the biography of a notorious Hamas bombmaker who masterminded suicide attacks that killed scores of Israelis.

58.   Although the fighting was supposed to have ended with the October cease-fire, scores have been killed since then.

59.   An official reached earlier by telephone in Birjand said scores had been killed in surrounding villages.

60.   Another crisis area that demands attention is the Yugoslav province of Kosovo, where a bloody crackdown last week killed scores of people, he said.