1.   Finding residents to replace Portuguese civil servants and judges and concerns over gang wars have troubled the diplomats arranging the handover.

2.   Leftist rebels contacted bishops and other officials to arrange the handover of the Swedes at a jungle location, said Alf Lindstrom, a Skanska spokesman in Stockholm.

3.   The chief U.N. legal counsel, Hans Corell, reportedly left Friday for Europe on his way to Libya to arrange the handover.

4.   The move followed reports that the chief U.N. legal counsel, Hans Corell, had left Friday for Europe on his way to Libya to arrange the handover.

5.   The move followed reports that the chief U.N. legal counsel, Hans Corell, had left for Europe on Friday on his way to Libya to arrange the handover.

6.   Both sides of the JLG, which arranges the handover, ended talks recently without any agreement on the ceremony.