1.   It was then that the seed of a park took root, but the idea remained secret so vandals would not strike.

2.   Law-enforcement authorities are also waiting for the vandals to strike again.

3.   Vandals struck Democratic Party headquarters in Chico, Calif., this week with a sobering reminder that hate groups are active in California.

4.   Authorities say the vandals struck Thursday night and again late Friday or early Saturday.

5.   In a wooded cemetery across town, vandals regularly strike the imposing tombstone of Pyotr Yermakov, the commissar who claimed to have pulled the trigger on the czar.

6.   Scotland Yard police headquarters said vandals apparently struck at the memorial before dawn.

7.   There were no spray-painted anti-Semitic slogans as is often the case when vandals have struck at Jewish cemeteries in the past, police said.

8.   Then in January, the vandals struck three churches, a convent and a private residence over two days.

9.   Vandals struck a Jewish cemetery in a provincial town and destroyed a Holocaust memorial there, the Hungarian state news agency reported Wednesday.