1.   The city was being overrun by enemy troops.

2.   But the Taliban overran the city and killed eight Iranian diplomats and one Iranian journalist.

3.   Hours after the Americans fled, the city was overrun by North Vietnamese troops and renamed for Ho Chi Minh.

4.   Like several thousand Zairians of Tutsi origin, he was forced into hiding when Tutsi rebels supported by neighboring Rwanda overran several Zairian cities in the border region.

5.   New York has long suffered from the perception that the city is overrun with crooked unions and extortionate industries under mob control.

6.   A Taliban official denied the city had been overrun.

7.   Although rebel troops were in Kabul on Thursday, government jets and helicopter gunships bombed their positions in an effort to keep the Taliban from overrunning the city.

8.   But on Tuesday, soldiers quickly abandoned their positions in the face of heavily armed rebels who quickly overran the city.

9.   But on Tuesday, soldiers quickly abandoned their positions in the face of heavily armed rebels, who quickly overran the city.

10.   But the Bosnian army is now strong enough that few observers believe the Serbs can overrun the city.