1.  Passengers waiting for buses moved along, obediently accepting the scare as a fact of life in this volatile city.

2.  A volatile city, bristling with men with guns, Khost has been carved up into areas of control by warlords of varying strength.

3.  Hebron is the most volatile city on the West Bank, being the only one where Jews and Palestinians live together.

4.  In addition, political opposition groups and fundamentalist Muslim groups are based in the volatile city.

5.  In Pakistan, violence broke out in two volatile cities along the border with Afghanistan.

6.  Khost, located in eastern Afghanistan near the Pakistani border, is a volatile city, bristling with arms and controlled by warlords.

7.  Khost, located in eastern Afghanistan near the Pakistani border, is a volatile city, bristling with men with guns and carved into areas controlled by warlords.

8.  Members of a new security force under government control guarded main intersections and expanded patrols Tuesday under an accord by northern warlords to stabilize the potentially volatile city.

9.  Ms. Bhutto withdrew the army from the streets of Karachi at the end of November, saying police were capable of maintaining order in the volatile city.

10.  Ms. Bhutto withdrew the army from the streets at the end of November, saying police were capable of maintaining order in the volatile city.