51.   A Cuban exile group launched fireworks from a boat just outside Cuban waters early Thursday to protest food rationing in the communist country.

52.   A leading Egyptian exile urged Britain on Saturday not to use its new anti-terror law to silence Muslim exile groups.

53.   A human rights group protested Wednesday the inclusion of a member of a Miami-based Cuban exile group in a delegation representing Nicaragua before the United Nations.

54.   A political detainee has died in Bahrain of a disease he contracted in prison, Bahraini exile group said Wednesday.

55.   A man who identified himself as a friend of Alfonso told reporters Friday that none of the men was active in any exile groups.

56.   A Myanmar exile group said Monday that several opposition party members have been charged under the provisions of a harsh emergency law and face long jail terms.

57.   A Myanmar student exile group also called on the government Sunday to issue a visa, saying the issue is not a political one.

58.   A spokesman for a Uighur exile group in Kazakstan, the United National Revolutionary Front, said four other Uighurs were sentenced to death in China last week.

59.   A provision in the law makes it a crime for British-based exile groups to conspire to cause violence abroad.

60.   A student exile group in Thailand said later that some had been arrested.