61.   Libyan officials immediately denied the claim.

62.   Libyan officials were unwilling to discuss details of the condition of their planes.

63.   Libya will withdraw hundreds of millions of dollars in investments from Europe to buy shares in newly privatized Egyptian companies, a Libyan official said Sunday.

64.   Libyan officials began talking then about the need to bring Arabs out of Afghanistan.

65.   Libyan officials in Harare have said Col. Moammar Gadhafi also wants to come but it was not clear how he would travel to Zimbabwe.

66.   Libyan officials long looked the other way as merchants traded sought-after dollars on the black market.

67.   Libyan officials who accompanied the charter flight to Dakar last week to bring the women back were allowed to return earlier.

68.   Libyan officials, however, announced that the new moon had been sighted and would mark the beginning of the three-day feast on Saturday.

69.   Most were released, reportedly for multimillion-dollar ransoms negotiated by Libyan officials.

70.   Regional experts on the north African nation said Libyan officials were known to be quietly trying to finalize a financial compensation deal.