51.   Earlier Thursday, Attorney General Janet Reno said that a telephone caller had claimed responsibility for the mid-air explosion and crash off the coast of New York.

52.   The Russian news agency ITAR-TASS reported Monday that an anonymous telephone caller had threatened to attack its Tokyo bureau with Sarin.

53.   The statement was the first official claim for the bombing, although an anonymous telephone caller told foreign news agencies HAMAS carried out the attack.

54.   The telephone caller immediately hung up and there was no confirmation of the claim for the bombings at a bus stop near the Israeli coastal resort of Netanya.

55.   The statement was the first official claim, although an anonymous telephone caller told foreign news agencies HAMAS carried out the attack.

56.   The telephone caller immediately hung up and there was no confirmation of the claim.

57.   The telephone caller went on to threaten Israel.

58.   Neither of the two bombers has been identified but anonymous telephone callers to Israel state radio claimed responsibility both times in the name of the Islamic Resistance Movement HAMAS.

59.   Police earlier had received a bomb alert from a telephone caller using an apparent IRA code, and they evacuated the area.

60.   Police earlier had received a bomb alert from a telephone caller using an apparent Irish Republican Army code, and they evacuated the area.