71.   Villagers are more adept at determining corruption in their immediate leaders than supervising officials are in their subordinates.

72.   Villagers were emboldened to demand services from the central government, and in the process village governments are becoming more democratic.

73.   Villagers were reluctant to talk.

74.   When she arrived, villagers were in the midst of an outdoor meeting on AIDS.

75.   What has been established, however, is that the villagers were simple peasants, and not the guerrillas the paramilitary leader says his troops were fighting.

76.   Police say that in many cases, there has been flimsy evidence to suspect the victims are guilty and that villagers are quick to seek out scapegoats.

77.   After weeks of waiting, villagers were skeptical, and bitter, when the word finally came.

78.   Another villager is ill after rummaging through the waste looking for empty sacks to store rice, his relatives said.

79.   But help for the villagers has been negligible.

80.   But in the meantime, remote villagers are happy to see the Toyota bouncing up their roads.