1.   An envoy to Philippine government hostage negotiator Robert Aventajado confirmed seeing Schilling in an Abu Sayyaf camp, a U.S. State Department representative said.

2.   He talked to villagers who confirmed seeing a U.S. pilot land by parachute and who recalled seeing a man taken prisoner.

3.   He says a local bus driver has confirmed seeing Rizo, crying as he was being herded onto a bus filled with other Bosnian Muslim men.

4.   Of course, what we saw on TV confirmed our impressions.

5.   Montoya said he doubted the account, but the daily Reforma reported that witnesses confirmed seeing the masked men.

6.   Neighbors confirmed seeing them, and one said he was told at least one of the five worked for the Japanese Embassy.

7.   U.N. officials in Sector East earlier had confirmed seeing six howitzers and six large anti-tank weapons under Serb control that were not registered with the United Nations as required.

8.   Another Romanian passenger on the bus confirmed seeing Caucasians working on farm, the report said.