101.   Also helping the markets was a successful US Treasury auction of five-year notes.

102.   Also helping the peso was a sign that the crisis with rebels in the southern state of Chiapas was easing, as guerrillas accepted a government-appointed negotiator.

103.   Among those it was said to have illegally helped were Bush, House of Representatives Speaker Newt Gingrich and North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms.

104.   Foreign ministry spokesman Ingvard Havnen said that helping the Palestinians was the best way to combat the present unrest.

105.   Kassem mentioned fund-raising and training as ways in which the militias were being helped, but he declined to identify states involved saying that no firm evidence existed.