61.   Health and Welfare Minister Junichiro Koizumi said his ministry was investigating links between officials and a welfare organisation at the center of a bribery scandal.

62.   Hessler was apprehended while trying to flee, said Columbus police, who are investigating the links between the suspect and his victims.

63.   Iosseliani himself was not directly charged in the crimes, but the interior ministry said it was investigating links.

64.   Investigators are also investigating links between the grisly discoveries of possible kidnapping victim Alex Umansky, who was abducted in December.

65.   At the time of his death Alexandrov was investigating links between local authority bosses and organised crime syndicates.

66.   Celtic chief executive Fergus McCann has supported football club Glasgow Rangers in withdrawing from a television programme investigating links between football and religion.

67.   Ministers have set up a working party to investigate possible links between cot deaths and fire-proof mattressess.

68.   Prison officials said the two prisoners were in separate parts of the jail, but added they would investigate possible links between the two suspected suicides.

69.   President George W. Bush rejected on Wednesday the idea of naming a special counsel to investigate links between his administration and collapsed energy firm Enron.

70.   The authorities were investigating the links between the fires in the Swiss Alps and Morin Heights, which were both well planned and used sophisticated arson devices.