31.   Prisoner exchanges stumbled badly last week, despite a commitment from all sides to free war prisoners as part of the Bosnian peace accord.

32.   Plans to hold another meeting last weekend collapsed when the rebels demanded that Palermo bring a plan to free guerrilla prisoners.

33.   Perestroika and the collapse of the Soviet Union freed political prisoners, but it also spurred a rise in violent and organized crime.

34.   Plans to meet on Sunday collapsed when the rebels demanded that Palermo bring a plan to free guerrilla prisoners.

35.   Rebels of the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement insist that freeing the prisoners must be on the table.

36.   A diplomat familiar with the negotiations in Moscow said the hijackers sought to free a prisoner held in the Afghan city of Kandahar.

37.   A dozen political prisoners are freed.

38.   A dozen pardoned political prisoners are freed Friday in the Indonesian-controlled territory of East Timor.

39.   Abubakar freed political prisoners, ended arbitrary arrests and reined in the secret police.

40.   Abubakar has freed political prisoners, invited exiles to return and promised a return to civilian rule at the end of May.