But as chaos has enveloped Somalia, and now Yemen, Mr. Farah said, he prefers to keep away.

Like: Total chaos will envelop the Soviet Union without Mr. Gorbachev, or the defeat of Iraq will leave a terrible "power vacuum."

One man was shot dead and four others were wounded today by guards in the central office of the bank as enormous lines of anxious depositors formed outside the branches and chaos enveloped the headquarters.

If we had tried to copy the Americans and delay it, for short-term political gain, Europe's chaos would have enveloped us, sending our borrowing costs soaring making our eventual recovery even less likely.

While it was possible to count bodies in some places, chaos enveloped many stricken areas, and officials offered little more than guesses.

He said that he had wavered about running again in the referendum on Oct. 4, but that he had finally decided to accept one last term for two reasons: a fear that "chaos" could envelop the 58 million Egyptians if he stepped down, and a desire to push Egypt toward a market economy.

Dudley jubilantly tossed it into the air as the clock expired and let the chaos envelop him.

The crash occurred an hour after sunset, and as fire engines, ambulances and other emergency vehicles and workers swarmed to the scene, chaos enveloped a middle-class neighborhood of older Victorian and newer colonial homes graced by towering oak trees and bright with Christmas lights and decorations.