21.   Police intensified their search for two kidnapped European women Friday after reports surfaced of heavily armed men near the northern border with Nicaragua, local media reported.

22.   Religious police have intensified operations here in recent weeks, patrolling the beleaguered city in four-wheel drive vehicles packed with purist militiamen.

23.   Sanali warned that more arrests would be made in the coming months, as police were intensifying efforts to flush out illegal workers.