61.   A duty officer in Springfield said he was not authorized to release information about any prisoners.

62.   A French military duty officer in Paris said he had no information on the report or any planned expulsions.

63.   A ministry duty officer declined to confirm the report, saying he was too busy.

64.   A Defense Ministry duty officer told The Associated Press he had no comment.

65.   A Kremlin duty officer declined to say whether Yeltsin had left the Central Clinical Hospital, where he checked in without public announcement Friday night.

66.   A duty officer at Air Sofia headquarters also declined to comment.

67.   A duty officer at the Beijing seismology office said there were no reports of deaths, and no large buildings had collapsed.

68.   A duty officer at the FSB head office refused to comment.

69.   A duty officer at the Interior Ministry who gave only his last name, Trofimov, confirmed that one person was killed.

70.   A duty officer at the Khmelnitsky region police headquarters said the shootout was over by late evening.