71.   Several senators called Friday for tough action and warned the rebels were likely to use ransom money to buy more weapons.

72.   Sanyo officials confirmed that the company provided the ransom money but deferred to Mexican officials on details of the release.

73.   She next heard from him Monday, when he called with details on how to deliver the ransom money.

74.   Six men of Russian descent are in custody, charged in indictments with hostage-taking or receiving ransom money in connection with some of the victims.

75.   Stern said Ford proposed the kidnapping and expected to profit from the ransom money.

76.   The case was unsolved at the time, and prosecutors will not say whether the Fiszman family paid the ransom money.

77.   The government earlier rejected demands that it appoint two Malaysians who negotiated the release of several hostages the group seized last year in exchange for ransom money.

78.   The group used that ransom money to acquire more weapons to beef up its arsenal, the military said in a statement Tuesday.

79.   The Grodis family has approached private donors and has even toyed with the idea of a special national lottery to collect the ransom money.

80.   The government is trying to persuade Kashmiri rebels to let off the four Western captives in exchange for ransom money, officials said Monday.