31.   On the second straight day of army attacks on Kosovo rebel strongholds, Washington dispatched senior envoy Richard Holbrooke to meet with the Yugoslav president.

32.   President George W. Bush dispatched Middle East envoy Anthony Zinni back to the trouble region Thursday in hopes of halting widening violence, The Associated Press has learned.

33.   Russia has played a far smaller role than the United States in Mideast peacemaking, though Russia has dispatched envoys to the region.

34.   The Cabinet issued a statement of condolences to grieving families, and President Mohammad Khatami dispatched an envoy, Jalil Besharati, to the region to monitor relief efforts.

35.   The family scrambled to raise money and dispatched two envoys with the ransom, but the rendezvous went wrong.

36.   The king is dispatching two envoys to Pakistan for talks with senior officials.

37.   The prime minister dispatched an envoy, Cabinet member Saburo Okabe, to meet with the families of those trapped and convey his sympathy.

38.   The United Nations has dispatched envoy Tom Eric Vraalsen of Norway to Sudan and Kenya for a week of negotiations on the cease-fire and on aid corridors in Sudan.

39.   U.S. President Bill Clinton dispatched envoys to both Taipei and Beijing this week to help defuse the crisis.

40.   Velayati said Iran was dispatching an envoy to Morocco, which currently holds the presidency of the OIC, to coordinate the dispatch of supplies.