21.   Jackson and an ecumenical entourage are credited with negotiating the release of the prisoners of war Saturday.

22.   Last week, he was in the southern Sudan negotiating the release of three Red Cross workers.

23.   Last year, he negotiated the release of two Americans held by Iraq.

24.   Last month, he flew to North Korea to negotiate the release of a young American who had been detained on espionage charges.

25.   Mauss supposedly was negotiating the release of the woman on behalf of the German government.

26.   Rev. Jesse Jackson, who negotiated their release in an unofficial diplomatic mission to Yugoslavia, accompanied them.

27.   Some congressional officials said they thought Saxton had gone to Yugoslavia in hopes of negotiating the release of the three American soldiers being held by Yugoslav forces.

28.   Some of them took refuge there after negotiating their release from Kunduz before it fell late last month.

29.   The company also provides a risk forecast service, makes travel arrangements with an eye to security and helps negotiate the release of abducted executives.

30.   The formal position of the United Nations and Western governments has been that it will not negotiate the release of the hostages.