71.   The freed hostages carried letters for the government of President Ahmed Tejan Kabbah, the U.N. observer mission and U.S. officials.

72.   The letter is being carried by Secretary of State Warren Christopher, who is in Brunei for meetings of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.

73.   The letter was carried by the official Emirates News Agency.

74.   The letter was carried by the official Iraqi News Agency on Saturday.

75.   The letter was carried by INA.

76.   The letter was carried by Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi, who arrived in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday.

77.   The letters were carried by mediators from the International Committee of the Red Cross, led by Henri Fournier, head of the ICRC office in Jakarta.

78.   The letter was carried on the front page of every Baghdad newspaper.

79.   The Russian ambassador carried a letter from President Boris Yeltsin.

80.   The U.S. civil rights leader, carrying a letter from Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic proposing a meeting with U.S. President Bill Clinton, urged Clinton to accept.