11.   Once Grullon is caught, Dominican officials said, the Dominican attorney general will consider the case for extradition.

12.   Safir had no comment on the remarks by Dominican officials.

13.   The Dominican officials said they planned to charge the father with falsifying documents.

14.   A Dominican official could not confirm the report.

15.   A Dominican official Friday denied a U.S. Defense Department report that local residents had stripped the bodies of some plane crash victims of cash and other belongings.

16.   A few days later, Dominican officials put Philippe under house arrest and later moved him into military custody at an undisclosed location.

17.   A senior Dominican official confirmed Sunday that the asylum question would be on the table and said his government was willing to help.

18.   A senior official in the Dominican National Investigations Bureau said Dominican officials were proceeding with caution because the Cuban was being protected by the U.S. Embassy.

19.   Aznar was expected to arrive in this former Spanish Caribbean colony Tuesday evening for two days of meetings with President Leonel Fernandez and other Dominican officials.

20.   But Dominican officials argue the United States has offered little in return for their costly involvement in the drug war, which they see as mainly a U.S. problem.