71.   When the men were rescued they would probably be taken to Noumea, the Australian Maritime spokesman said.

72.   Zimmer contacted another towboat pilot who secured the other barge and rescued the men.

73.   Firemen were able to rescue the man who was thrown in.

74.   In one such incident earlier this month, six kidnappers were killed when police and paramilitary troops raided a house and rescued a man being held for ransom.

75.   A fourth man was rescued.

76.   A fire crew was late Wednesday fighting to rescue a man trapped in a slop tank aboard a ship anchored off the northeast British coast, coastguards reported here.

77.   A Russian helicopter, flying in bad weather, had been unable to rescue the men, Palmer said.

78.   Firefighters finally arrived to rescue the man, whose dog had plunged through the ice.

79.   Lawton and three other seamen came up behind the lieutenant and pushed him overboard but the man was rescued before he could drown.

80.   Paramedics rescued one man as he clung to a tree but six others were missing, police said.