1.   Government officials have said there is no plan to postpone the signing if the pilots are not released, but the issue is clearly a delicate one.

2.   One pilot died and the other pilot was released only after tense negotiations between the two countries.

3.   The Clinton administration had warned that a failure to release the pilot would make it difficult for the United States to proceed with the agreement.

4.   The gunman released the pilot around midnight with a list of demands, including his wish to speak to someone from the Argentine Consulate, the police said.

5.   An increasingly impatient Clinton administration has warned that relations could be set back unless the two pilots are quickly released.

6.   Christmas arrives with no sign that North Korea plans to release American pilot Bobby Hall for the holiday as U.S. officials had hoped.

7.   Christmas arrived with no sign that North Korea planned to release American pilot Bobby Hall for the holiday as U.S. officials had hoped.

8.   France has demanded that the pilots be released before the Bosnian peace agreement is signed in Paris on Thursday.

9.   From the control tower in Hyderabad there were reports that the pilot had been released with a written list of demands from the hijackers.

10.   He demanded Bosnian Serbs release the pilots by Sunday, but stopped short of saying France would call off the signing ceremony set for next Thursday in Paris.