41.   As part of those efforts, he had at times in recent months served as an intermediary between leftist rebels and families of kidnap victims.

42.   As part of those efforts, he served on various occasions as an intermediary between leftist rebels and families of kidnap victims.

43.   Armed men have abducted an owner of fishing trawlers in the southern Philippines, where government troops were searching for other recent kidnap victims, police said Sunday.

44.   But officials said they hoped to clear flood water before nightfall from an underground chamber where they think suspected child-killer Marc Dutroux may have held kidnap victims.

45.   But the rebels also allegedly hid kidnap victims in the zone, and used it to traffic cocaine and train and launch attacks elsewhere in the South American country.

46.   Chenard said Thursday morning she was hopeful the kidnap victims would be freed quickly.

47.   Citing the hope of a new year, he prayed for the families of kidnap victims and appealed to kidnappers to release their victims.

48.   Colombian guerrillas routinely set up roadblocks on rural highways and stop cars, randomly seeking kidnap victims for ransom.

49.   Connerotte had been praised as a national hero after rescuing two kidnap victims while leading the inquiry of Dutroux.

50.   Credit cards and documents belonging to a Japanese kidnap victim were discovered in a rebel camp that was overrun in an army offensive, a military spokesman said Wednesday.