The police say one tagger, still on the loose, was responsible for three recent slayings.

Patrick Boyle of St. Brendan's Catholic Church said the recent slayings are reverberating, "bringing other crime into prominence."

But the police believe the recent slayings are not part of a trend.

Any strange behavior, obsession with the recent slayings .

But the recent slaying of an Israeli accountant in the Gaza Strip after he lost his way has knocked the wind out of many people.

An on-campus program at 1 P.M., organizers say, will in part protest the recent slaying and racial attack in Howard Beach.

Now the six recent slayings of foreign visitors have brought increasing worry to both the industry and the consular officials of foreign nations.

Mr. Sharma said that until the recent slaying, the program seemed unnecessary because, "we thought we had everything under control."

Jim Myers, who lives on Capitol Hill, said six recent slayings in his neighborhood had not been solved.

"No one can say when it will stop," a young man, a camp resident who spoke on condition of anonymity, said of the recent slayings.