71.   Earlier in the week, international monitors negotiated the release of one Serb villager and three ethnic Albanians held by the KLA, local media here reported.

72.   Earlier in the week, the international monitors negotiated the release of one Serb villager and three ethnic Albanians held by the KLA, local media here reported.

73.   Efforts to negotiate the release of the last two so far have proven fruitless, despite early reports their kidnappers were seeking a ransom.

74.   Envoys from the Organization of American States and the Catholic Church helped negotiate their release.

75.   Family members traveled into the zone to try to negotiate hostage releases.

76.   French Foreign Ministry spokesman Jean-Paul Dumont said Friday in Paris that French authorities were working to negotiate the release of the tourists.

77.   French diplomats based in Lagos, the Nigerian capital, were negotiating the release of the hostages.

78.   Georgians try to negotiate release of U.N. observers.

79.   GROZNY, Russia -- Russian lawmakers negotiating the release of prisoners in Chechnya accuse their own government Friday of sending the jets that have attacked the breakaway republic.

80.   He helped negotiate the release of several Malaysians taken hostage by members of the Muslim extremist Abu Sayyaf group two years ago.