81.   In a separate development Wednesday, Interfax cited unidentified sources as saying Mikhail Lesin had quit as public relations chief for the presidential administration.

82.   In a separate development, a Chechen rebel commander and his daughter were seriously wounded when a grenade was thrown into their house, the Interfax news agency reported.

83.   In a separate development, an abducted Russian serviceman was released in Chechnya Tuesday and was to be taken to Moscow.

84.   In a separate development, an official in Bengkulu said a pharmacy had been caught selling fake medicine.

85.   In a separate development, Bush met Tuesday with his leading candidate for secretary of Health and Human Services, Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson.

86.   In a separate development, Defense Minister Yitzhak Mordechai approved Jewish settler plans to expand an enclave in the West Bank city of Hebron, Channel Two TV said.

87.   In a separate development, four aid workers from northern Iraq remained in the custody of Iranian authorities on Sunday, a U.N. official said.

88.   In a separate development, German states said Wednesday they have had to release dozens of Kosovo Albanians about to be deported because of the flight cancellations.

89.   In a separate development, INA reported three children were killed when a mine left over from the Gulf War exploded in Basra province.

90.   In a separate development, Interfax said Abkhazian authorities plan to shut down a Russian naval base in the port of Ochamcira.