1.   Both men had disappeared into the mountains hours before other allies of the group ended a weeklong standoff with authorities.

2.   The attack left scores dead and Raduyev released the hostages and retreated back into Chechnya after a weeklong standoff with Russian troops.

3.   After a weeklong standoff, Penn State University students and administrators celebrated an agreement Wednesday designed to increase opportunities for black students.

4.   But a wider outbreak of violence feared in a weeklong standoff in the Palestinian neighborhood of Ras al-Amud fails to materialize.

5.   But wider violence feared in the weeklong standoff failed to materialize.

6.   Last year they mounted a mass weeklong standoff that triggered widespread Protestant rioting elsewhere, culminating in three young Catholic brothers being burned to death.

7.   On Wednesday, China ended a weeklong diplomatic standoff over the fate of five North Koreans who sought asylum at the Japanese consulate in the northeastern city of Shenyang.

8.   Protesting employees at a troubled bank cheered wildly Thursday after a government mediator agreed to consider all possible solutions to end a weeklong standoff over proposed job cuts.

9.   The developments came after Fujimori sent new assurances to foreign governments that he was doing all he could to achieve a peaceful end to the weeklong standoff.

10.   The Justice Department announced the settlement of the last remaining civil lawsuit arising from the weeklong standoff at the Idaho compound of white separatist Randy Weaver.