31.   The mayor said he was concerned about notifying families quickly, not about the public release of a complete passenger list.

32.   The officials withheld the names of the dead and of those rescued on Saturday until they could notify their families.

33.   The relatives of Roberto Mello found his dead body on Saturday morning and immediately notified the family of Escobar, the man found dead in his bed.

34.   The State Department requested that the names of the dead be withheld until their families are notified.

35.   Their families had been notified, the State Department said.

36.   The victims were not immediately identified because the authorities were still notifying their families as of Saturday night.

37.   They were not given time to notify their families.

38.   They say that many were not even allowed to notify families before being herded into buses and shepherded across the border to Haiti.

39.   Usually families were notified of a death by telegram.