31.   Efforts continued to obtain his release.

32.   He ran in recent city council elections in Vladivostok, in what his aides called an effort to draw attention to the case and help obtain his release.

33.   He obtained the release of the Russian soldiers in exchange for two Chechens serving criminal sentences in Russia, the daily said.

34.   He spent six months in a federal jail before obtaining his release late Wednesday on the basis of a constitutional appeal.

35.   Jackson obtained the release of three American soldiers from Yugoslavia in May.

36.   Kyprianou was in Athens on Thursday with plans to fly on to the Yugoslav capital of Belgrade to try to obtain the release of the three U.S. servicemen.

37.   Last summer, Carlos lost a bid before the European Court for Human Rights to obtain his release.

38.   Russia has stepped up its efforts to obtain the release of seven pilots held hostage in Afghanistan since last summer, a Russian official said Thursday.

39.   She said the U.S. government appreciated the efforts of the government of Niger, as well as Chad and Nigeria, in obtaining his release.

40.   The agency said it had issued an urgent appeal to governments in the region to join in the effort to obtain the release of Djeya, the female staffer.