61.   The local alliance commander sent a mesage through the Red Cross to the German embassy in Islamabad informing them that the eight had been freed.

62.   The German embassy has refused to discuss the matter.

63.   The German embassy here has not commented on the campaign.

64.   The German embassy in Belgrade is shutting down and Ambassador Wilfried Gruber and other embassy personnel are leaving without delay, the foreign ministry in Bonn said Tuesday evening.

65.   The German embassy in Bogota said it was trying to verify the report.

66.   The German embassy said Schmidbauer met with a U.S. official only to discuss the possibility of German-brokered peace talks between the Colombian government and leftist guerrillas.

67.   The German embassy was not immediately available for comment.

68.   The international environmental group Greenpeace held a protest in front of the German embassy Thursday to demand that Germany refuse to finance new nuclear reactors in Ukraine.

69.   The president told Kinkel that he sees a long line of Lithuanians outside the German embassy waiting to get visas on his way to work every day.

70.   The spokesman added that Zhirinovsky had a valid visa issued by the German embassy in Moscow.