11.   Presenter Michael Stipe, the frontman of U.S. band REM, said the prize money would be used to allow the station to broadcast from a new transmission tower.

12.   The passport was later used to allow Junzo Okudaira, a fellow Japanese Red Army member, to flee Japan.

13.   International officials from US President Bill Clinton down have insisted the elections will not be used to allow secession by the separatist Serb administration.