It was disclosed recently that Zimbabwe, which had restricted those aid programs to the governing party's rural strongholds, was holding more than 300,000 tons of grain.

Museveni returned with his supporters to their rural strongholds in the Bantu-dominated south and southwest to form the Popular Resistance Army (PRA).

Churchill was not a very great fan of the constituency, regarding it as inferior in social status to a rural Conservative stronghold.

After World War II, Temanggung Regency was one of the areas in central Java where the Communist Party (PKI) had is rural strongholds.

At the edge of the clearing surrounding this rural stronghold the traveler stopped briefly to survey the layout before him.

Even if he were conceded all the disputed contests in his rural strongholds, he nevertheless had lost every state but Tennessee and Alabama.

Mr. da Silva swept most of Brazil's coastal cities, while Mr. Collor was believed to be doing well in his rural strongholds.

The PCF is also strong in the Cévennes mountains, a left-wing rural anti-clerical stronghold with a strong Protestant minority.

City dwellers would be the biggest beneficiaries of the new approach, a point not lost on the Dole campaign, which would like to broaden its voter base beyond traditional Republican suburban and rural strongholds.

The Socialists lost most votes in middle-class urban areas, while holding their ground better in their rural strongholds.