1.   -- Petroleos de Venezuela SA, the state oil company, said it has found potentially large deposits of light oil in the Andean foothills.

2.   A Pastrana aide journeyed into the Andean foothills last week to meet with top guerrilla commanders.

3.   He said he wished he were at least being cheated in some interesting place, like the Andean foothills.

4.   Then, as Colombian army troops approached La Caucana, the guerrillas loaded mules with looted food and medicine and disappeared into the Andean foothills.

5.   Within hours a second patrol, this one from army intelligence, joined the hunt for the foreigner in the Andean foothills east of here.

6.   Peru and Ecuador settled on a border slicing through a jungle in the Andean foothills, eliminating a flashpoint between the South American neighbors, diplomats said Friday.

7.   Coca leaf is grown in the Andean foothills of Bolivia and Peru.

8.   Coca leaf is grown in the Andean foothills of Bolivia and Peru, and most of it is processed into cocaine.

9.   He was taken to a house in the Andean foothills near Santiago where he died of torture.

10.   Hundreds of army soldiers backed by planes searched remote areas in the Andean foothills for pieces of a missing Russian space probe that carried radioactive material.