41.   Late Thursday, Bosnian Radio broadcast a dramatic appeal for help from a ham radio operator in Bihac.

42.   Officials and ham radio operators from Bihac spoke of death, injuries, damage and hunger.

43.   Rival Somali clansmen battled Tuesday for the control of the southern Juba River valley, ham radio operators reported.

44.   The ham operators have come through in disasters before, however.

45.   The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, cited reports from Air Force reconnaissance planes and local ham radio operators.

46.   The reports came from ham radio operators on St. Thomas through the Federal Emergency Management Agency and ZBVI, the British Virgin Islands radio station.

47.   The ship, Farah Oman, left for Yemen with its crew, including Italian and Portuguese sailors, the ham operators said.

48.   Wareham was interviewed via a ham radio operator.

49.   Also while in space, the astronauts can communicate with ham radio operators, thanks to a special receiver on board.

50.   Bosnian Serbs on Thursday attacked the UN-declared safe haven of Gorazde in eastern Bosnia and wounded three people, according to a ham radio operator quoted by Croatian television.