101.   Costa Rican embassy spokesman Victor Corea said his government had not ruled on the asylum request.

102.   Contacted by telephone, U.S. embassy spokesman Stan Schrager declined to comment.

103.   Danish embassy spokesman Bo Jensen said glass ballot boxes have been used in Ghana, Burkina Faso and Uganda, and reduced accusations of vote rigging.

104.   Defense officials from the U.S. Embassy in Beijing also were traveling to meet the technicians, an embassy spokesman said.

105.   Despite the fact that it remained standing, the bombed embassy building was ruled structurally unsound and will be destroyed, embassy spokesman Chris Scharf said.

106.   Dolganov, the embassy spokesman, said the burial would likely take place this summer.

107.   Diplomats met for a third time with Chinese officials on Wednesday morning to discuss their complaint, said an embassy spokesman.

108.   Eight illegal immigrants jumped over the walls of the U.S. Embassy early Friday morning, said embassy spokesman James Warren.

109.   Embassy spokesman Chris Scharf said plans were underway to move all the embassy operations to a temporary building outside downtown Nairobi sometime next year.

110.   Embassy spokesman Claud Young told The Associated Press that the mission does not plan to close down because of the threat except for the Labor Day holiday on Monday.