51.   Police were treating the deaths Wednesday as a murder-suicide, consulate spokesman Tom Leary said.

52.   Police are treating the deaths as murders.

53.   Police are treating the disappearance as a noncriminal matter.

54.   A coroner will investigate the deaths, which police are treating as murder-suicide.

55.   But they insisted that the police had treated them brutally.

56.   Detective Chief Superintendent Ian West, who was leading the investigation, said police were treating it as a personal dispute.

57.   Explosions in four phone booths Thursday jolted this southern French city, but police were treating the blasts as the work of pranksters.

58.   He said his sister sounded nervous on the telephone, but told him police had treated her well.

59.   He said police were treating the threats as a prank.

60.   He said Ms. Plavsic sounded confused and in shock on the telephone but told him that police had treated her well.