1.   The carnage lasted until midnight when a small detachment of federal troops intervened and the rioters scattered.

2.   And a small Secret Service detachment settled into a house and trailer just outside the entrance to his land.

3.   In remote towns, small detachments of the National Police are the only line of defense against rebel incursions.

4.   In July, the Clinton administration began sending small detachments of U.S. soldiers to Haiti each month as part of what are officially described as training exercises.

5.   The civilians, most of them unarmed, threw icy snowballs and insults at a small detachment of British soldiers, and looked, generally, menacing.

6.   They include a small detachment of special forces.

7.   Under the peace accords, Israel was scheduled to turn over Hebron to Palestinian authorities last March, leaving a small detachment of soldiers to protect Jewish settlers.

8.   A small detachment, possibly a light infantry company, may be raised to garrison Oecussi, an East Timorese enclave surrounded by Indonesian territory.

9.   Powell said the United States was willing to contribute a small detachment of State Department or other civilian U.S. government employees to monitor any cease-fire agreement.

10.   The delegation will be accompanied to Kabul by a small military detachment to act as security, Ivanov said.