1.   American diplomats say quiet diplomacy is necessary if there is to be any hope of prisoner exchanges in the absence of a peace accord.

2.   And conservative Iranian commentators have praised the new prisoner exchanges as a sign that Iran and Iraq might begin to make common cause against shared enemies.

3.   And the voices left to her were those of government officials and Hezbollah commanders who are wrangling to work out a prisoner exchange.

4.   Babitsky said he was freed by the people who had held him since the Russian prisoner exchange.

5.   A missing muckraking journalist, a shady prisoner exchange, intelligence agency double-talk and a deadline to win a war.

6.   After nearly two years in captivity, they were returned to the United States in a prisoner exchange.

7.   But in a move that probably meant death for Obradovic, he was released in a prisoner exchange.

8.   Hopes rose again last January, when the first prisoner exchanges took place between the Bosnian Serbs and the Bosnian Muslims.

9.   Last week, three Americans who had spent months in Mexican jails because of weapons violations were sent back to the United States in a routine prisoner exchange.