31.  In recent years, officials said non-metallic elements were found near the western Dead Sea area on the borders with Israel.

32.  Israel radio said the rockets hit the western Galilee area.

33.  Israel Radio said the rockets hit the western Galilee area, setting a field on fire.

34.  Other regions of the country affected, police said, were western areas of the Midlands and a belt of southern England.

35.  Serbian police claimed Sunday they had killed dozens of ethnic Albanian militants amid an escalation of warfare in the western Decani area of the tense Serbian Kosovo province.

36.  Some Grozny residents were escaping through one relatively safe western area.

37.  Suspect McVeigh reportedly frequented western Arizona areas before the bombing.

38.  The ethnic Albanian-dominated western area of Macedonia borders not only Albania, but the Kosovo region of southern Serbia, which also is dominated by ethnic Albanians.

39.  The hilly western area is considerably cooler.

40.  The independence movement has grown stronger, and a western area of Kosovo is virtually controlled by the clandestine and militant Liberation Army.