81.   Two days of heavy rain have left four people dead and forced thousands to abandon their homes in southern Brazil, civil defense officials said Monday.

82.   With Malawi facing a deepening famine, aid workers warned Thursday that increasing numbers of villagers were abandoning their homes to search for work and food.

83.   He urged Serbs living in Sarajevo not to abandon their homes when the city comes wholly under Bosnian government control.

84.   Hundreds of frightened villagers have now abandoned their homes and are camped out in surrounding fields, the paper said.

85.   International agencies say Serbs have been pressured into abandoning their homes by their hardline leadership which forged the war on the basis of ethnic exclusivity.

86.   A Jordanian who named his newborn son Yitzhak Rabin after the assassinated Israeli prime minister has been forced to abandon his home because of continued threats and harassment.

87.   At least two million Rwandans have abandoned their homes to seek a dubious safety in the hills.

88.   But they also vowed not to abandon their homes.

89.   Fear of the rebels pushed him and his fellow refugees to abandon their homes.

90.   Thousands of civilians abandoned their homes after the airforce dropped leaflets at the weekend urging people to move away from LTTE facilities, an aid official said.