71.   Many Chinese fishermen have been arrested in the past but have been freed after serving short jail sentences.

72.   Most of the others had been freed soon after the mass abduction.

73.   Most were freed after a few weeks, but about two dozen were held and sentenced to long jail terms.

74.   Most were freed after a few weeks, but more than two dozen were held and given long prison terms.

75.   Most were freed after a few weeks, but about two dozen were held and sentenced to long prison terms.

76.   Most were freed shortly after the raid.

77.   Mrs. Strickland freed herself after the thief left and pressed the security alarm to notify police.

78.   Netanyahu said that the protesters took a hostage who was freed after negotiations with German authorities.

79.   Nayyouf, who was left partially paralyzed after his years in prison, was freed after an international campaign by human rights and press freedom groups.

80.   North Korea freed him after the U.S. government expressed regret for what it called a navigational error -- not a spy mission as claimed by the North.