31.   The MILF helped negotiate their release.

32.   The Rev. Jesse Jackson negotiated their release Saturday.

33.   The Russian prime minister negotiated the release of all the hostages in a series of phone calls to Shamil Basayev, leader of the hostage-takers.

34.   The two women would presumably be interested in seeing their husbands and meeting with Iraqi officials to negotiate their release.

35.   Walsh was trying to negotiate a release of Brezec from a European pro contract that has one year remaining after this season.

36.   We spent the night in a dungeon until our colleagues negotiated our release.

37.   Police were trying to negotiate release the release of the Greek diplomat inside with the Kurdistan Information Center in Cologne, which has ties to the PKK.

38.   Police negotiated the release of five students and one professor before arresting the suspect, Wolfgang said.

39.   Police negotiated the release of three of four monks who had been kidnapped and held in the tense Pankisi Gorge region of Georgia, officials said Thursday.

40.   A Canadian journalist held for four days by the Taliban in southern Afghanistan crossed into Pakistan on Saturday night after diplomats negotiated his release.