71.   Assad also sacked Maj. Gen. Bashir al-Najar, his intelligence chief.

72.   Arizabaleta is suspected in the murder this month of a police intelligence chief involved in raids on his properties near the southwestern city of Cali.

73.   Authorities have released two newspaper editors who were detained for carrying an interview critical of the prime minister and the intelligence chief, the information ministry said Saturday.

74.   Before meeting with Yeltsin, Aziz held talks with Primakov, an Arab affairs expert and former Russian intelligence chief.

75.   But a top Russian intelligence chief declined Tuesday to predict when Dzhokhar Dudayev might be arrested.

76.   But he fled in November amid corruption scandals involving Vladimiro Montesinos, his intelligence chief, and he now lives in self-imposed exile in Japan, his ancestral homeland.

77.   But he said the prime minister, defense minister, intelligence chief and other key Cabinet members had agreed to stay on.

78.   But he said the vote was necessary after the political uproar over a videotape allegedly showing his intelligence chief bribing an opposition congressman to support the government.

79.   But the South Korean intelligence chief said there were no indications that the new leader has any health problems or faces internal resistance.

80.   But the provincial intelligence chief, Haji Gulalai, denied the report.