71.   Two kidnapped ethnic Chinese-Filipino traders were released after paying a ransom to their captors, radio reports quoting the Philippine police said Sunday.

72.   Two out of three policemen in Manila cannot shoot straight, a red-faced Philippine police official admitted Tuesday.

73.   Two people were killed and three others were arrested after Philippine police raided a house being used to manufacture bombs near this southern city before dawn Wednesday.

74.   Top Philippine police officials briefed foreign diplomats in the Philippine capital Monday following reports that some of the envoys were targetted for kidnap, a foreign department source said.

75.   Two ranking leaders of the Moslem terrorist group Abu Sayyaf have escaped from their improvised detention cell inside the Philippine police headquarters here, a police spokesman said Thursday.

76.   Two Cypriot men have been arrested after they allegedly tried to rob a suburban Manila storekeeper using hypnosis, Philippine police said Tuesday.

77.   Two Cypriot women have been arrested after they allegedly tried to rob a suburban Manila storekeeper using hypnosis, Philippine police said Tuesday.

78.   Yousef fled the country after the apartment fire, while Murad was arrested by Philippine police when he returned to the apartment later.

79.   Last month, Philippine police arrested an Indonesian man that led to the seizure of a cache of bombs in the south.

80.   Muslim rebel leader Nur Misuari Friday urged the Supreme Court to order the government to release him from jail, charging that Philippine police had kidnapped him from Malaysia.