51.   Ressam was convicted last year in the airport bombing plan and is now cooperating with federal prosecutors in Qaida trials and investigations in an effort to reduce his sentence.

52.   Reid, noticeably pregnant, was among the women who asked for her sentence to be reduced.

53.   Schweitzer could also appeal to the Navy-Marine Corps Court of Criminal Appeals, which sometimes reduces sentences.

54.   Serrano said he would send a letter to President Bush asking him to pardon the four if their sentences were not reduced.

55.   She received a six-year jail term, but her sentence was later reduced to fines.

56.   She did not specify which offenses should have reduced sentences, saying that this would be left to the discretion of prosecutors.

57.   That was one of the main points Presson tried to stress to get her sentence reduced from death to life without parole.

58.   The court said it reduced the sentences out of consideration for the contributions the two former presidents made to their country.

59.   The prosecution had hoped to convict Walker and Ramsey, then offer to reduce their sentences if they would testify against Dorsey.

60.   The proposal now under discussion in Parliament would reduce the sentences of those convicted under emergency laws, with the exception of those found guilty of mass murder.