21.   This new passport is a triumph for Belgium and a sign that it is taking its problems with passport fraud seriously.

22.   Under American law he may obtain a new passport merely by applying for one.

23.   Only the Immigration Department will be able to read the electronic information in the new passport to verify the authenticity of the document.

24.   A bill on new passport designs remained in dispute as ethnic Albanians demanded that the cover be printed in three languages - Macedonian, Albanian and English.

25.   After Heggstad was freed, FBI agents flew to Medellin and returned him to Bogota, where he was issued a new U.S. passport.

26.   After supposedly being cleared to compete for Yugoslavia, he never took possession of his new passport and later mended relations with the federation.

27.   But he prefers not knowing why someone waited until it was too late to simply send for a new passport.

28.   But within weeks, Lewis told W-Five that the Mossad asked him again for his new passport, a request he refused.

29.   Cheek said Wednesday that the U.S. government was confident that new Argentine passports, due to be issued later this year, would prove more difficult to forge.

30.   Chen said the decision was made last Friday and officials expect the new passport to be released as early as November of this year.