1.   They have evicted thousands of tenant farmers, hoping to be rid of them before any new law takes effect.

2.   Municipal guards sent to evict thousands of sidewalk vendors from downtown Lima were attacked by national police, who beat them and fired tear gas.

3.   Police evicted thousands of rowdy spectators who interrupted play as India faced defeat in an Asian cricket test championship match on the fifth and final day Saturday.

4.   Thousands have been evicted from land in the past two months, but authorities have been reluctant to be too tough while they prepare for the national housing drive.

5.   The Serb refugees pouring into Bosnia from their captured region Krajina have targetted the local minority Croat population, violently evicting thousands from their homes.

6.   The autonomous Basque police force later closed all the beaches on the Basque coast, evicting thousands of sunbathers, while they searched for other devices there and nearby.

7.   The communist ruler of Calcutta has defended his controversial move to evict thousands of street vendors, a newspaper said Tuesday.