21.   Police spokesman Oliver Soko said ranking officers were unsympathetic because the men should have pursued their demands through official police channels.

22.   State prosecutor Norbert Maredza said the employee, George Manjengwa, angered engineering firm owner Patrick Bland by taking up a pay demand through his labor union.

23.   Spurring domestic demand through heavy tax cuts and lower interest rates would help to absorb the additional exports from the region and mitigate the crisis for East Asian countries.

24.   Veerappan reportedly has sent an audio cassette containing his latest demands through a messenger, a local cable TV channel reported.

25.   But Lestas said the man had not contacted her organisation and that she had learnt of the ransom demand through news reports.

26.   It said they had received demands through the post for two to five million US dollars with threatened bomb attacks if they failed to pay up.

27.   Local police chief Alain Gehin said the hijackers were observing radio silence and passing on their demands through the pilot.

28.   Ministerial aides said OPEC experts indeed expect continued strong demand through the northern hemisphere winter period.

29.   Schily called on the opposition to work out their demands through changes to the draft law.

30.   Shouting their demands through megaphones, the prisoners called on the prison director to resign and denounced human rights violations in the institution.