1.   A short burst of automatic weapons fire on Friday sent villagers scurrying for cover down a narrow dirt street.

2.   A powerful earthquake rattled the Solomon Islands early Tuesday morning, sending villagers scattering into the streets but causing no injuries, radio quoted police as saying.

3.   Clashes between Serb police and ethnic Albanians in Kosovo this week sent panicked villagers fleeing from machine-gun fire and rocket launchers.

4.   Defying NATO warnings, Yugoslav forces have pounded suspected positions of the rebel Kosovo Liberation Army in recent days, sending terrified villagers into the open.

5.   Four Russian jet fighters circled overhead as a helicopter gunship rocketed this Russian Cossack village today, sending villagers fleeing into the streets.

6.   In northern Kosovo, Yugoslav army tanks fired on KLA positions near Ljupce, sending Albanian villagers fleeing in terror,

7.   In northern Kosovo, Yugoslav army tanks fired on rebel Kosovo Liberation Army positions near Ljupce, sending Albanian villagers fleeing in terror.

8.   In the past few months, the government began sending villagers living in soon-to-be inundated areas to other provinces.

9.   On Tuesday, a driving rainstorm sent villagers scurrying out of the churchyard before they could find where they believed the Catholic dead had been buried.

10.   On Tuesday, a driving rainstorm sent villagers scurrying out of the churchyard before they could find where they believed Gypsies had buried the Catholic dead.