31.   An army spokeswoman said she was checking the report.

32.   An Israel army spokesman in Jerusalem said the military was checking the reports.

33.   Both ministries said they were checking the report.

34.   But an officer of the national police headquarters said the report was being checked by members of a task force against kidnap gangs.

35.   But a military spokesman in Jakarta, Brig. Gen. Sunwarno Adiwijoyo, said the government is checking the reports.

36.   But it was not clear if his visit was to check the report in Srinagar, the seat of the Muslim campaign for independence of Jammu-Kashmir state.

37.   By law, campaigning ended at midnight Saturday, but the Commission on Elections said it was checking reports that many candidates were trying to skirt the ban.

38.   But the statement said it was continuing to check the report.

39.   Civic groups say police are covering up because they received a complaint of a gas leak the night before the explosion but failed to check the report.

40.   Egyptian human rights officials said Sunday they were checking the report, obtained over the weekend from the London-headquartered Amnesty.