51.   Embassy officials said Tuesday that there were no water pipes in the tunnel, only electrical and phone wires.

52.   Embassy officials suspect that attempts are also being made to forge U.S. visas in Nigeria.

53.   Embassy officials told them they had to leave the country immediately because Iraq had threatened to capture any Americans living in Kuwait and hold them hostage.

54.   For weeks embassy officials had urged Ambassador Graham Martin to chop down the tree so that helicopters could get into the embassy garden.

55.   Guns were held to the heads of Moore and other embassy officials at various times in their captivity.

56.   He said U.S. embassy officials were improperly denied access to Bliss until today, when they met with him for two hours.

57.   He organized the cattle roundup and contacted embassy officials.

58.   He said he had immediately informed his captors that their child was a U.S. citizen, though the government later denied knowing this when later questioned by embassy officials.

59.   If progress is made, the mediators will hold a three-way meeting, a U.S. embassy official said.