51.   A Chinese man who told Western reporters about an April protest by factory workers said Tuesday that police were investigating him for alleged espionage.

52.   A western reporter in Basra said he saw a house that was completely destroyed and three others that were damaged.

53.   An international organization that campaigns for press freedom has protested remarks by Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad directed at Western reporters he accuses of bias.

54.   As international peacekeepers worked to restore order to East Timor, a Dutch journalist was killed and two other Western reporters escaped an armed attack without injury.

55.   Because of perennial unrest, Beijing rarely allows Western reporters into Xinjiang.

56.   But it granted access to a Western reporter accompanying European, U.S. and Australian aid groups on a week-long tour.

57.   By noon, western reporters in Kosovo reported convoys of dozens of trucks and other military vehicles each converging on Pristina, apparently massing for pullout.

58.   China closely controls news from Tibet and generally does not allow Western reporters to visit the remote Himalayan region.

59.   Few Western reporters have been allowed into Tibet since.

60.   Garang also confirmed reports from Western reporters who have been near the battlefront that little fighting has occurred recently.