51.   Pakistani newspapers said American officials monitored and directed the raids.

52.   A Congolese rebel group has begun withdrawing troops from battle zones in northwestern Congo, U.N. officials monitoring the cease-fire said Monday.

53.   A Russian justice official monitored the extradition hearing.

54.   Ali Bacher, the executive director of the tournament, said officials were monitoring the chaotic situation in Zimbabwe.

55.   Although prison officials monitored the meeting, the couple plotted their hunger strikes.

56.   And environmental officials monitored the air for days, declaring it safe each time.

57.   Conversely, American officials monitor Cuba from the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

58.   Damage from the anthrax-by-mail attack spiraled, with two postal workers dead, two more hospitalized and officials monitoring nine others with suspicious symptoms.

59.   Department officials monitored the situation through the night.

60.   Elsewhere, a state official in Virginia confirmed that health officials there were monitoring a possible case of anthrax at a northern Virginia hospital.