41.  Forty-four people were killed in coastal communities in the Pacific state of Jalisco, state spokesman Jorge Alberto Salinas said by telephone Monday afternoon.

42.  From there they will be flown to New Zealand and the tiny Pacific state of Nauru where their asylum applications will be processed.

43.  Forty-five people were killed in coastal communities in the Pacific state of Jalisco, state spokesman Jorge Alberto Salinas said by telephone Monday afternoon.

44.  In recent years a number of cash-strapped Pacific states have turned to offshore banking operations as a way of propping up their fragile economies.

45.  Officials declared a state of emergency in the Pacific states of Michoacan and Jalisco, the central state of Puebla and the Gulf coast state of Tabasco.

46.  Rain was likely in much of the West, with scattered showers in interior sections of the Pacific states and in the Rockies.

47.  Rampant poverty and corruption in many Pacific states have led to civil war and coups in some such as Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and Fiji.

48.  The Education Ministry has been blockaded for most of May and early June by teachers from the Pacific states of Michoacan, Guerrero and Oaxaca.

49.  The government news agency Notimex reported four deaths in the Pacific state of Guererro.

50.  The government has focused on the Pacific coastal states of Guerrero, Oaxaca and Sinaloa, according to an institute statement published Monday in the Reforma newspaper.