11.  The windstorms that buffeted the southwest states were generated by a potent Pacific low-pressure system that has taken a path unusually far south for late April.

12.  California and most of the Southwest states were dry.

13.  Fair, dry and hot conditions persisted over the Southwest states.

14.  The Pacific Northwest and remaining Southwest states were dry and partly cloudy to fair.

15.  A forest fire raging around a federal nuclear weapons laboratory in the southwest state of New Mexico poses no immediate danger to the facility, a spokesman said Monday.

16.  But all eyes were on the southwest state of Arizona where results were to follow those in the Dakotas, rural midwest states where Dole had campaigned heavily.

17.  The results in the key southwest state put a new damper on the Dole campaign despite wins Tuesday in the midwest states of North and South Dakota.

18.  Lieutenant General Gyaw Ba had returned to Rangoon after touring southwest Arakan state earlier this week, it said.

19.  Others traverse the border without papers, many of them in the southwest states bordering Mexico, Meissner said.