31.   Police searched a mountainous area northeast of Rome Tuesday for a kidnapped Italian industrialist after arresting four suspected abductors in a highway shoot-out.

32.   President Fidel Ramos told a news conference Wednesday that he had directed air transport officials to study whether flights should be shifted away from the hazardous mountainous area.

33.   Police have surrounded the house in a mountainous area and opened talks with the hostage taker, the network reported.

34.   Police and military troops were massing around a mountainous area near Siraway, where Benedetti is believed to be held, officials said.

35.   A German woman apparently fell to her death during a camel expedition in a mountainous area in southern Yemen, the German Embassy said Sunday.

36.   A border committee was trying to convince the Myanmar troops to withdraw from the mountainous area, where the border is often fuzzy and an uneasy truce prevails.

37.   A moderate earthquake rattled a mountainous area in southwestern Romania, authorities said Saturday.

38.   A moderate earthquake rattled a remote mountainous area on the borders of Tibet on Friday, but there were no reports of casualties or damage.

39.   A police helicopter spotted five cannabis plantations in a mountainous area south of this port.

40.   A police officer was killed Monday and at least four others were wounded in a clash with drug dealers in a remote mountainous area of western Georgia.