51.   It was signed in Aden by U.S. Ambassador Barbara Bodine and a Yemeni official, Boucher said.

52.   Lawyer Adimi, who was on the defense team, said international attention forced Yemeni officials to ensure that the trial was more open than most.

53.   Members of the Daham tribe who kidnapped Brooke said they would free him in exchange for a tribe member serving a prison sentence, Yemeni officials said Sunday.

54.   Meanwhile, negotiations continued to try to secure freedom for two German kidnap victims being held in the north, Yemeni officials said.

55.   Minister of Religious Endowments Ahmed al-Shami submitted his resignation to President Ali Abdullah Saleh, a Yemeni official said.

56.   Negotiations between the government and tribesmen who kidnapped a French diplomat earlier this week were still under way Wednesday, a senior Yemeni official said.

57.   Neither Yemeni officials nor the Dutch or British embassies would divulge any details about the five deported students.

58.   On Saturday, police started preventing cars from parking outside the Court of Appeals in Aden, where a Yemeni official said the Cole trial would take place.

59.   On arrival, Abdullah held talks with Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh on the Middle East peace process and bilateral relations, Yemeni officials said.

60.   Other Yemeni officials said they were from neighboring Saudi Arabia.