1.   At the trial, the jury heard several hours of a police audiotape of hostage negotiations via a telephone line between the police and Nguyen.

2.   After all, dozens of hostage negotiations in Latin America had ended with greatly reduced ransom payments and no bloodshed.

3.   Earlier, on Tuesday, he announced that he had ordered members of the rescue team to receive training in hostage negotiations, behavioral science and crisis management.

4.   Hostage negotiations, almost by definition, are ordeals.

5.   In the end, one specialist in Bogota summed up hostage negotiations as a straightforward business deal.

6.   Its internal divisions over tactics and money have complicated recent hostage negotiations.

7.   Mindermann also taught at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Va., where he developed a course in hostage negotiations and mediating and defusing confrontational situations.

8.   The officers, including a detective trained in hostage negotiation, tried to persuade the man to drop his weapons, Collins said.

9.   Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin carried out an unprecedented series of televised hostage negotiations with the leader of the gunmen, Shamil Basayev.

10.   A U.N. police patrol was in the area and specialists trained in hostage negotiations were available if needed, Ivanko said.