1.   Federal authorities have tied the abductions of the three teens with the kidnapping of a Chinese businessman in New York City.

2.   Sometimes, however, authorities can directly tie looted material to the burgeoning market for relics.

3.   Authorities have now tied Beghal to others arrested in the Netherlands and in Belgium.

4.   Authorities have now tied Beghal to others arrested in the Netherlands, where four people have been arrested, and in Belgium, where two arrests were made.

5.   Gordon said he saw the clothes tied arounda concrete slab and authorities asked him tie a rope around.

6.   Jordanian authorities tie him to bin Laden and military court there has convicted him of conspiring to carry out attacks on U.S. and Israeli targets.

7.   The accusations, the first time Yugoslav authorities have tied Milosevic to war crimes, could pave the way for sending him to the U.N. tribunal in The Hague.

8.   They later agreed to pay after school authorities tied their admission to its payment.