31.   Meanwhile, the Indian-appointed governor of Kashmir, K.V. Krishna Rao, said Sunday authorities have no plan for a military rescue of the Westerners.

32.   Military rescue workers were not immediately able to identify the remains, and collected them in plastic bags.

33.   Officials also decided to establish a large joint military rescue detachment in Sevastopol.

34.   Of the other hostages seized this year by Pentagon group, a Chinese engineer was killed and another was wounded in a military rescue attempt.

35.   On Thursday, several dozen British paratroopers arrived in Sierra Leone from Dakar, Senegal, to give negotiators the option of a military rescue.

36.   One of the Chinese was killed and another wounded in a military rescue attempt.

37.   Rebels holding seven Indonesians and six Europeans hostage are planning to move from their jungle camp to avoid capture by a military rescue mission, an official said Saturday.

38.   Sherkawi said the figure was expected to rise once the military permitted rescue services to enter the Jenin camp, where dozens were believed dead.

39.   The negotiations appeared to have soured two weeks ago after the rebels separated their Caucasian captives from the Asians because of fears of a military rescue operation.

40.   The party and central government have sent six planes carrying life rafts, life vests and other military rescue materials to Hunan, the newspaper said.