1.   He contended that the government had a better success rate with solving urban kidnappings than the overall statistics would indicate.

2.   Jackie Chan plays a detective from Hong Kong who teams up with Los Angeles police officer Chris Tucker to solve a kidnapping and avert international catastrophe.

3.   Recently, he promised to solve the kidnapping of Gen. Gennadi Shpigun, a senior Russian Interior Ministry official who was abducted at the Grozny airport early this month.

4.   Sometimes, police or military units try to solve kidnappings by assaulting hideouts with their guns blazing.

5.   Police, meanwhile, have reportedly made two arrests in connection with the kidnapping but have not said whether progress was being made in solving the kidnapping.

6.   As the government moved to solve the kidnapping, suspected Communist rebels kidnapped a police official and killed his friend in an eastern province.

7.   Newspapers warned the rich to take extra precautions, but police defended their record in solving kidnappings that are reported.