1.   A CNN correspondent said there was no visible advance by Northern Alliance troops opposed to the Taliban.

2.   A CBS White House correspondent said there were worries about a split screen, the president on one side, the defendant on the other.

3.   Nevertheless, correspondents say their information is no less reliable because they have so much time to fill.

4.   The correspondents say they rely partly on instinct and partly on information from friendly Afgahan combat forces.

5.   The former Associated Press correspondent says Iran sponsored the captors who kept him blindfolded and shackled for more than six years.

6.   The speculation intensified when CNBC correspondent Dan Dorfman said Sears was interested in buying Hechingers as it beefs up its hardware business.

7.   Our Khulna correspondent said that the power supply in Khulna was in a mess.

8.   A Dutch TV correspondent said unconscious victims were pulled out of windows by their hair.

9.   An Associated Press correspondent said he watched as the journalist was helped into an ambulance and taken away.

10.   Local correspondents say they are resigned to having their reports censored.