31.   Investigators think the payments may have been part of an effort to siphon money from Corridor before federal agencies could seize its assets.

32.   It claims that permitting such assets to be seized would endanger US properties overseas.

33.   Jewish assets were seized first in Germany, before the war, and later in the countries the Nazis occupied.

34.   Many Jews deposited money and other assets in Switzerland before the war when Nazi Germany was seizing Jewish assets.

35.   Morgenthau said city has seized the assets of the companies indicted and of the company officials arrested.

36.   Officials also complained that Saudi Arabia has yet to formally instruct its banks to expeditiously seize such assets if they were found.

37.   Over the years since, bankers lobbied for new laws to make it easier to seize assets held as collateral on past due loans.

38.   President Ernesto Samper said yesterday he plans to change the current Constitution, which gives the state the right to seize assets.

39.   Samper said he plans to change the current legislation under which the state has the right to seize Colombian assets owned by foreign companies.

40.   Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., has introduced legislation to seize their assets, restrict their travel and forbid their leaders from entering the country.