11.   He was told how the killing occurred by some of the five hostages who were freed during the clash.

12.   His lawyer, Jean-Marc Varaut, pleaded for him to be freed during the trial, a move civil parties opposed.

13.   Kyprianou said the Americans may be freed during the long Orthodox Easter weekend, which was starting Thursday.

14.   Kyprianou, who plans to meet Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic on Friday, says the Americans could be freed during the long Orthodox Easter weekend.

15.   Officials were told how the killing occurred by some of the five remaining hostages, all of whom were freed during the clash.

16.   Saul Chang Cueto, a Tapachula store owner,, was freed during a raid Wednesday on a building in Tapachula, near the Guatemalan border.

17.   Still, he said, the Americans may be freed during the long Orthodox Easter weekend, which began Thursday.

18.   Six hostages were later freed during an army rescue operation.

19.   Still, he said, the Americans may be freed during the long Orthodox Easter weekend, which was starting Thursday.

20.   The chief engineer of a regional energy company was among the hostages freed during a crackdown on kidnappers in breakaway Chechnya, a news agency reported Friday.