1.   After being held overnight in the detention area, the detainees were taken by barge to the main island of Puerto Rico.

2.   Law enforcement officials took each detainee in separate cars.

3.   Such delays, he said, are inherent in a complicated process that often involves getting cooperation of foreign embassies to take detainees back.

4.   The base is known to Chechens as a place where detainees are taken and sometimes never return.

5.   The detainees were taken by truck to a fenced-in detention area.

6.   They criticized United States policy on Cuban detainees and urged that a helicopter be brought in to take the detainees to freedom.

7.   Authorities agreed that the hostage-takers would not be charged and that they would ask China to take detainees back within a month.

8.   But the Swiss officers decided to return to Switzerland as Cameroon authorities stipulated the plane could continue to Kinshasa only if the detainee was taken back.

9.   Ginn said detainees were always taken to the hospital or dentist in handcuffs.

10.   Officials said the detainees were being taken to a military police station in Beirut for interrogation to determine if any of them are wanted on criminal charges in Lebanon.