71.   Amid clashes with troops, leftist rebels on Wednesday released twelve of the hostages they seized last weekend along a highway in Colombia.

72.   An American nurse accused of performing illegal abortions and providing medical care to leftist rebels denied the charges in a video message released Tuesday.

73.   An Indian rights bill won approval from a majority of Mexican state legislatures, but the law appeared unlikely to satisfy leftist Zapatista rebels.

74.   An AP reporter drove into the remote mountains of southwest Colombia to search for leftist rebels.

75.   Analyst Carlos Franco, a one-time leftist rebel with a different group, said the FARC is using the attacks to demonstrate military strength and improve its negotiating position.

76.   Antioquia is heavily contested by leftist rebels and landowner-backed militias.

77.   And they work equally with right-wing paramilitary groups and leftist rebels, both of whom earn tens of millions of dollars a year from cocaine production.

78.   An oil spill in Colombia blamed on leftist rebels is oozing into a river in neighboring Venezuela, authorities confirmed Thursday.

79.   And Chavez provoked a diplomatic row with neighboring Colombia earlier this month when he said Bogota had recognized leftist rebels as a legitimate fighting force.

80.   Army chief Gen. Joaquin Cuadra said Wednesday that former leftist Sandinista rebels and ex-convicts have formed criminal groups.