51.   Anwar lawyers fail to win his release on bail.

52.   Apparently fit and healthy, Russian airmen held captive in southern Afghanistan appealed to their government in Moscow to step up efforts to win their release.

53.   Arafat has come under growing domestic criticism for his failure to win the release of large numbers of so-called security prisoners during the Wye negotiations.

54.   Authorities had earlier demanded that Gao confess guilt to win release, but she refused.

55.   Australian diplomats are working to win their release.

56.   Authorities have demanded Gao Yu confess to her alleged crimes to win release, Zhao Yuankang said.

57.   Blagoja Markovski, a Macedonian army spokesman, later said that the army as well as international officials were working toward winning the release of the Macedonian hostages.

58.   Berezovsky has helped win the release of dozens of hostages in Chechnya in recent months, and Interior Minister Sergei Stepashin publicly thanked him for his efforts.

59.   Both women were allowed to visit the prisoners in their Baghdad jail several weeks ago but were unable to win their release.

60.   But Israel rejected demands for a sweeping amnesty, saying that Palestinians involved in attacks on Israelis would not win early release.