71.   However, media accounts said the man had grabbed Zhao by the neck and smeared her with excrement before pushing or punching her to the ground.

72.   Initial accounts said Nechai explained his motives in a note, but reports Friday said it was a personal letter to his wife.

73.   Local news accounts said construction materials may have blocked escape routes, contributing to the disaster.

74.   Local press accounts said that was due to suspicion of money laundering.

75.   News accounts said the protesters tried to extort money from cars that passed by before police closed the road.

76.   Newspaper accounts said the victim, Prathuang Manphuang, was pressured and cajoled to drop charges against Poonphol.

77.   Newspaper accounts say most drugs come from Asia and the smuggling is both by air and sea.

78.   One account said that others traveling with the pair in northern Thailand claimed they had been abducted and forced into Laos.

79.   One account said Cozma tried to resist arrest as the car he was traveling in stopped at a gas station near Caracal, just west of Stoenesti.

80.   One account says the group is controlled jointly by Iraq and al-Qaida.