51.   Agency spokeswoman Anita Harrie confirmed the report, but did not provide details.

52.   Alemka Lisinski, a U.N. aid agency spokeswoman, warned of near-starvation in the northwest Bihac pocket, saying U.N. warehouses there were empty or near empty.

53.   Agency spokeswoman Maki Shinohara expressed concern in Geneva that Serb authorities were encouraging the displaced to return home even as houses around Malisevo were continuing to be set alight.

54.   Agency spokeswoman Christiane Berthiaume said Ivorian authorities forced most of the women and children who had been taken from the ship to get back on after getting medical care.

55.   Alemka Lisinski, a U.N. aid agency spokeswoman, said food supplies were not damaged because they were stored in the basement.

56.   An accountant or firm convicted of a felony or certain misdemeanors generally is barred from practicing before the SEC, agency spokeswoman Christi Harlan said Tuesday.

57.   An agency spokeswoman refused to comment on the media reports, saying that a senior agency official was to hold a briefing on the inspections later Friday.

58.   An agency spokeswoman declined to comment on that.

59.   Australia has two fishing boats working those waters legally, which have spotted the poachers, said agency spokeswoman Trish Stone.

60.   FAA routinely investigates engine failures, and the review is not punitive, agency spokeswoman Elizabeth Isham Cory said.