31.   The slaying of Jumayal resulted in bitter public protests against Arafat and his security forces and a promise by the Palestinian legislative council to investigate the abuses.

32.   The United Nations and most aid organizations retreated to the capital last week after guerrillas killed and mutilated five U.N. employees who were investigating human rights abuses.

33.   They criticize Russia for failing to act on two previous commission recommendations to investigate abuses in the province and to punish those responsible.

34.   This team approach is the newest thinking in investigating child abuse.

35.   Under current law, caseworkers investigating the abuse of a child can review only unfounded reports involving that same child.

36.   Varela said that he had created a special commission of colonels to investigate human rights abuses and that soldiers who commit them are prosecuted vigorously.

37.   Previous promises by the government to investigate human rights abuses have yielded no arrests.

38.   A European Parliament statement earlier this month urged a negotiated end to the war and said Russian officials had done not nearly enough to investigate alleged abuses in Chechnya.

39.   Amnesty said in a statement that foreign observers should be sent to the island to investigate human rights abuses by both sides.

40.   An inquiry panel investigating abuses by Canadian soldiers in Somalia three years ago said Monday that potentially crucial documents are missing from Defense Department records.