41.  A Biting Battle on Paramilitary Groups Roughly half the states now have laws governing the private paramilitary groups that have proliferated in recent years, sometimes violently.

42.  A Chechen paramilitary group allied with Moscow said it had concluded a deal with rebels in the Chechen capital and that some would leave the city on Saturday.

43.  A human rights group said a paramilitary group was to blame.

44.  A bloody insurgency, pitting guerrillas against Indian soldiers and paramilitary groups, has rocked the Kashmir valley for a dozen years.

45.  A local expert on militias and right-wing paramilitary groups offered a third possibility.

46.  A paramilitary group operating in the Barrancabermeja area, near the Magdalena River, is actively stealing peasant lands, either by murder or terror.

47.  A loyalist paramilitary group opposed to the Northern Ireland peace process claimed responsibility.

48.  A number of paramilitary groups have sprung up across the United States in recent years.

49.  A peaceful solution to the long and bloody conflict in Northern Ireland inched closer Thursday when Protestant paramilitary groups called a halt to their campaign of violence.

50.  A Protestant paramilitary group, the Ulster Defense Association, has been blamed by the police for organizing the current rash of riots.