1.   But Ms. Allen said that investigation and testing was in the jurisdiction of the Colombian authorities.

2.   An article Tuesday in The New York Times quoted U.S. officials as saying Colombian authorities were doing nothing about planes loaded with cocaine taking off from Colombian territory.

3.   A final report is pending, but Colombian authorities found in a preliminary investigation that pilot error and language difficulties with Cali traffic controllers were the probable causes.

4.   But Constantine and other officials cautioned that it was too soon to tell how harshly the Colombian authorities would punish the six top Cali leaders they captured this year.

5.   Colombian judicial authorities have said that his lawyers were trying to negotiate a surrender.

6.   Colombian authorities denied Wednesday that the Caribbean island of San Andres serves as a haven for drug traffickers and that big jets are transporting cocaine to Mexico.

7.   Colombian authorities, by improving ground security, allowed the U.S. to remove the warning, Secretary of Transportation Federico Pena said in a statement.

8.   Colombian authorities at first said that Fiore escaped.

9.   Initial reports from Colombian authorities indicated that the crash was caused by pilot error as the jet prepared for landing.

10.   On Wednesday morning Colombian authorities were gleefully trumpeting the arrest of yet another leader of the cartel, Phanor Arizabaleta Arzayus.