101.   Eleven former Food and Drug Administration commissioners have come out against legislation that would lift a ban on prescription drug imports, a pharmaceutical industry group said Thursday.

102.   Egyptian security forces are detaining, torturing and sexually assaulting women in cases involving Muslim militants, a London-based Islamic group said Thursday.

103.   Employees of a Florida fertilizer company said a group of Middle Eastern men repeatedly asked about crop-duster planes in the months leading up to the terrorist attacks.

104.   Eyre said the group, which initially refused food offered by the embassy, have been eating and are being treated well.

105.   Favorable economic climate in Europe and the strong U.S. dollar also contributed to the increase, said the group.

106.   Farmers in a Chinese village threw stones and overturned cars to fight off an attempt to collect taxes they considered too high, a labor group said Monday.

107.   Foreign religious workers will only be allowed to stay in Russia for three months at a time under a new government regulation, religious groups said Thursday.

108.   Four organizers of a banned Chinese meditation sect have been sentenced to prison terms ranging from two to four years for subversion, a rights group said Friday.

109.   Future aid to Zaire should be linked to its compliance with the arms embargo, the group said.

110.   Germany has gone too far in some aspects of its campaign against the far right, the rights group said.