61.   Three speed boats intercepted the Turkish ships fishing for flounder near the Romanian coast, said Col. Costica Nazaru, who heads the local border police.

62.   They practised abandoning ship and simulated a landing on a coastal boulder from a speed boat.

63.   Three armed men aboard fled in their own speed boat, the paper said.

64.   Three additional high speed Customs patrol boats will be based in the Torres Strait to combat the illegal drugs trade, Torres Strait Regional Authority chairman John Abednego said.

65.   Troops in speed boats will try to ferry the hardest-hit villagers to safer places, he said.

66.   Troops with speed boats have been deployed to rescue villagers who have been stranded by floods in the remote areas.

67.   Two fled toward a forest and the third boarded speed boats at a coastal village.

68.   Two more were collected from French soldiers who moved about in small speed boats.

69.   Two people were killed and several others were injured when a speed boat and pleasure boat collided Sunday evening, according to broadcast reports.

70.   Two speed boats filled with police hefting automatic rifles escorted the Safari Queen, the first cruiser to visit this part of the river in eight months.