31.   Navy spokesman Lt. Cmdr. Salvador Cuba said military planes and ships also were taking precautions in affected areas.

32.   North Korean ships will take delivery in Japanese ports, perhaps as early as this month.

33.   Now she can do little but wait for a government ship to take her from the province.

34.   Prime Minister John Howard has said the ship must take its unwanted human cargo back to Indonesia.

35.   Several thousand Madurese refugees were still languishing in a disease-infested camp in Sampit on Saturday, waiting for ships to take them away.

36.   Ships will take the oil on to refineries.

37.   The Coast Guard said the foreign ships will take the Filipinos to their destinations in Japan, Vietnam and Thailand, where Philippine officials could arrange for their repatriation.

38.   The ill-fated ship had been taking the sheep from Western Australia to Jordan.

39.   The ministry initially said three Thai military planes were involved in the clash but later issued a correction saying that only ships took part.

40.   The navy ships were taking part in an exercise nearby when the vessel sank.