61.   There were reports of extensive damage to banana plantations.

62.   Two people are in critical condition in a Miami hospital Thursday, among eight tourists evacuated from Jamaica after a trailer carrying the visitors to a banana plantation overturned.

63.   He said many RPA soldiers had been deployed in banana plantations around Gisenyi in the expectation that the defeated soldiers of the old regime might try to return.

64.   A bridge was swept away in Saint-Lucia and in Martinique banana plantations were destroyed and towns flooded.

65.   Banana workers took refuge in nearby villages after the paramilitary group threatened to kill tham if they did not leave the banana plantations.

66.   But most of the refugees were still hiding out in the hills and banana plantations around Uvira, which also form ideal terrain for guerrilla activity.

67.   They had been driven back into banana plantations between the airport and the border.

68.   Most of the damage has been inflicted on grassland, but the pest has also hit banana plantations, haricot beans, and other crops.

69.   Six farm workers were murdered late Sunday in the northern Magdalena province, where paramilitary squads frequently patrol banana plantations looking for guerrilla sympathizers.

70.   The main speakers, including former deputy prime minister Paul Ssemogerere, fled into a banana plantation for safety.