31.   They found the whole thing difficult to accept but were too frightened to contact the authorities.

32.   When she contacted the authorities, however, Chrun says that she was rebuffed.

33.   When they had not returned by Wednesday afternoon, friends contacted authorities and a search began.

34.   Phillips contacted authorities after receiving a letter from a man who had sought her advice on how to handle his fantasies about having sex with underage girls.

35.   Paraguayan Police Chief Mario Agustin Sapriza said he would contact Brazilian authorities to launch a joint investigation into the mass grave.

36.   A faculty member apparently contacted authorities.

37.   A senior intelligence official said on condition of anonymity that the abductors had not contacted authorities in Kashmir.

38.   Ajweh said that when he contacted the Palestinian authority in Gaza City he was not given a reason for the confiscation.

39.   After repeatedly rejecting calls by the rebels and Western nations for negotiations in Chechnya, Putin urged Chechen rebels to contact Russian authorities to discuss disarmament.

40.   Agumava said that a Forest Brothers commander, Dzhambul Khazarov, had contacted Abkhazian authorities through a middleman and that negotiations were underway.