101.   North Korea agreed to talk to U.N. military officials as part of an effort to resolve the increasingly belligerent confrontation.

102.   No deadline for his departure was set in the original recommendation, which was rejected by Washington officials as a way of playing for time.

103.   Now American government officials say they saw the risks in Mexico and began warning Mexican officials as early as late summer.

104.   On Israel radio, reporters quoted unnamed senior Israeli officials as saying that the Zinni mission was at an end.

105.   On Sunday, Eggleton is to travel to Washington to press his case with American officials as part of a previously scheduled visit.

106.   On the one hand, Arafat was described by officials as unable and unwilling to bring Palestinian militants quickly under control.

107.   One died, and one was listed by hospital officials as critically wounded.

108.   One national newspaper, The News, quoted an unnamed government official as saying that Howaida had confessed to planning the bombings.

109.   One Kenyan staff member, identified by German officials as Joash Okindo, is in a German university clinic in Homburg with serious head injuries.

110.   One of those arrested in Phoenix, Ymer Adid Aguilar-Yoc, was identified by officials as a leader.