61.   Fujimori refused to discuss whether he would grant the hostage-taking guerrillas a presidential pardon but insisted he wanted the standoff to end peacefully.

62.   A lengthy standoff ended in April when the agents again moved on the building and it was engulfed in flames, killing Koresh and scores of his followers.

63.   A kidnapped police officer and four bandits were killed Saturday when a tense standoff on farmland in central Pakistan ended in a bloody shootout, police said.

64.   The standoff ended when the militants holed up in the white-marble Hazratbal shrine were given safe passage out.

65.   The standoff ended when police persuaded the man, armed with a Kalashnikov rifle, to give himself up, police chief Hasan Ozdemir said.

66.   Meanwhile, Fujimori predicted the standoff would end peacefully.

67.   Meanwhile, Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori on Tuesday predicted the standoff would end peacefully.