1.   Pakistani authorities would like to end the kidnap ordeal before President Pervez Musharraf visits the United States next week.

2.   The German victim of a jungle kidnap ordeal, ill and weary, has left Costa Rica for medical care at home.

3.   Apparently in good health, she later talked to Swedish television about her kidnap ordeal.

4.   Colonel Chhouk Rin was arrested and jailed for ordering the train ambush that began the kidnap ordeal but he was released after an appeal.