21.   Controversy intensified when she left without securing his release.

22.   He once helped secure the release of a townsman who had been kidnapped by the rebels, Cantalapiedra says.

23.   His suspicious arrest has prompted angry protests from his Texas congressman and a crusade to secure his release.

24.   In Belgrade this weekend, the American assistant secretary of state for European affairs, Richard C. Holbrooke, pressed Milosevic to secure the release of the French airmen.

25.   Intensive diplomacy aimed at securing their release, however, has been inconclusive.

26.   Initially, officials in Baghdad said four men had commandeered the plane, but after securing the release of the passengers they revised the number to two.

27.   It took five weeks of international pressure to secure his release.

28.   Jacobs, rabbi at the temple, was part of the delegation that met with Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic to help secure the release of the men.

29.   Notably, it was Stanisic, who had secured the release of the two other sets of hostages, who accompanied those released Tuesday into Serbia.

30.   Over the years, such contacts allowed Leyva to help secure the release of several prominent Colombians who had been kidnapped by the guerrillas.