31.   An unidentified official from shipping agent Petroships Private Limited said he suspected hijacking, according to the news report.

32.   An unidentified senior American official told the Times that France had sent as many as three Mirage fighter-bombers to strike Pale.

33.   And the Newark Star-Ledger, quoting an unidentified Yankees official, reported Thursday that Steinbrenner wants him to start Sunday against the Mets.

34.   An unidentified official in the task force command told ITAR-Tass that the troops stationed in four Russian regions adjacent to Chechnya comprise Interior Ministry and army units.

35.   An unidentified Taliban intelligence official told the agency that the suspects included Abdul Manaf, a former Afghan army colonel.

36.   An unidentified Taliban official said soldiers repulsed opposition attacks in northern Takhar province despite heavy U.S. bombing, according to the Pakistan-based Afghan Islamic Press.

37.   Austrian radio, citing unidentified officials at the hospital in Innsbruck, said the operation was a success.

38.   Authorities arrested the truck drivers, the unidentified official said, but gave no further details on their identities or when the bust took place.

39.   At the same time, Interfax quoted an unidentified Supreme Court official as saying that capital punishment may be replaced by life imprisonment.

40.   Bosnian Serb television, seen in a satellite feed in Madrid Thursday, showed three Spanish EU monitors talking with unidentified Serb officials.