1.   But many landless blacks in the countryside did not turn out to vote, and city people decisively rejected the constitution.

2.   He focused on the redistribution of white-owned farms to landless blacks in a country that was increasingly urban and preoccupied with joblessness and falling wages.

3.   His party sought, and did not get, stronger guarantees for compensation of property owned by whites that may be returned to landless blacks.

4.   Mnangagwa said the transfer of white-owned land to landless blacks had been hindered by guarantees in the old constitution that handovers involved compensation.

5.   With his popularity slipping, Mugabe has revived pledges, popular among landless blacks, to redistribute the land of white minority farmers.

6.   President George W. Bush signed into law Friday a bill designed to pressure Zimbabwe to stop seizing white-owned farms and turning them over to landless blacks.

7.   President Robert Mugabe accused white farmers Friday of provoking violence in farming districts in an effort to resist the redistributing of property to landless blacks.

8.   Almost immediately afterward, thousands of armed ruling party militants began occupying white-owned farms, demanding the properties be seized and redistributed to landless blacks.

9.   Announcing his election platform Wednesday, Mugabe spoke glowingly of the occupations and said the squatters would stay until whites made more land available for landless blacks.

10.   Britain refused Thursday to help compensate white farmers in Zimbabwe who have their property seized by the government under a program to resettle landless blacks.