21.   Its downtrodden economy and state-supported orphanage system have created a siren call to American couples yearning for children.

22.   Its trademark is kidnapping, and it currently holds an American missionary couple.

23.   Look at the gap between what the American couple pays and what the mothers get.

24.   Laws against interracial adoption forbade the few white American couples interested in taking them home from doing so.

25.   Police, helped by American special forces, continued to hunt for an American missionary couple and a Filipina nurse held on Basilan island.

26.   Seven live babies have never before been born to an American couple.

27.   She eventually escaped with her son in a dramatic ruse orchestrated with the help of her parents and an American couple in Saudi Arabia.

28.   She tells a story of inviting a young American couple to stay with her some years ago.

29.   So she told her parents that she would be traveling with an American couple who had hired her as a nanny for their young children.

30.   The agency has also been under fire for canceling adoptions of Cambodian infants even after American couples had already picked up their new children.