1.   Authorities believe the assailants were members of Shiv Sena, an ultra right-wing Hindu political group.

2.   Bodyguards in the follow car radioed to those in the car in front, and the assailants were disarmed without a shot.

3.   Blucker, who is white, said his assailants were black gang members.

4.   About two years after the trial, he told his mother, Donna Mayhue, that the assailant was Kenny Taylor, who at the time was his stepfather.

5.   But a Pentagon spokesman said the assailants were clearly to blame for the exchange, opening fire on the Marines near the farming town of Zegra.

6.   District Attorney J. Tom Morgan said there were four assailants at the shooting scene, but he would not discuss why only three people were arrested.

7.   For instance, Ms. Treacy said, they are sometimes worn in gang rapes, because the assailants may be worried about catching a disease from one another.

8.   From his hospital bed, Harrison told the authorities that he did not believe the assailant was a burglar.

9.   Gen. Octavio Vargas Silva, director of the National Police, said that the assailants were apparently drunk.

10.   He survived, and police mounted an intense search for an assailant they said was probably a sniper.