1.   As they arrived in the sleepy Southwest town, directors began to compare notes on their personal liability in the face of the inevitable shareholder suits.

2.   From its Victorian mansions to a Civil War battlefield, this southwest Missouri town is steeped in history.

3.   In Machiques, a town southwest of here, squatters and farmers clashed on a recent day after landowners tried to eject peasants.

4.   In this town southwest of Houston, however, a dispute over umpiring led to both sides being tossed.

5.   Meanwhile, business is on the rise at the Titanic Historical Society Museum in this southwest Massachusetts town.

6.   Residents of several Utah towns southwest of Provo have been warned that spreading fires might come their way.

7.   The Boston general manager was scheduled to leave this southwest Florida town Thursday morning and hoped to have Mo Vaughn signed by then.

8.   This small town southwest of Seattle on the Pacific Coast is reeling from the brutal murders of a family by its teen-aged son and a friend.

9.   Expecting trouble, British troops and police were deployed in a ring of armored cars at every road into this predominantly Protestant town southwest of Belfast.

10.   First reports Monday of the accident near an isolated southwest town had conflicting reports on the number of dead.