101.   Federal authorities are considering regulations that would limit their catch along the Atlantic coast, from Florida to Maine.

102.   Firefighter Robert Calise said said authorities consider the fire suspicious and still were investigating.

103.   Foreign Affairs Minister John Manley said Canadian authorities were considering the U.S. request.

104.   French authorities had been considering using fences to control any rowdiness by hooligans.

105.   German authorities are considering whether to try two U.S. Army soldiers in the stabbing death of a German man or to permit the Army to put them on trial.

106.   Gusinsky was arrested in Spain in December under a Moscow-issued warrant charging him with financial crimes, and Spanish authorities are considering whether to extradite him.

107.   He also said Russian authorities had not considered the possibility of protracted combat operations in Chechnya.

108.   He is now under house arrest, and Spanish authorities are considering whether to extradite him.

109.   He added that the operators could submit their applications and the State authorities would consider the requests depending on the merits of each case.

110.   He reiterated that authorities are considering the possibility that the al-Qaida network was behind the blast, but he said there was no conclusive evidence so far.