1.   Last week, an inmate in the prison system who was taken to a hospital at Lubbock after swallowing a can opener briefly escaped and took two nurses hostage.

2.   Abu Sayyaf guerrillas are holding an American missionary couple and a Filipino nurse hostage on Basilan island north of Jolo.

3.   Abu Sayyaf had been holding two American missionaries and a Filipino nurse hostage.

4.   Appalling conditions on Basilan are blamed for fanning the extremism embraced by the Abu Sayyaf rebels, who are holding an American missionary couple and a local nurse hostage.

5.   The Abu Sayyaf guerrillas have been holding an American couple and a Filipino nurse hostage for more than nine months in the jungles of Basilan.

6.   The Abu Sayyaf held two American missionaries and a local nurse hostage for more than a year.

7.   The group is holding an American couple and a Filipina nurse hostage on southern Basilan island.

8.   The group is holding a Filipino nurse hostage and an American couple on southern Basilan island.

9.   The group is holding an American couple and a Filipino nurse hostage on Basilan island southwest of General Santos.

10.   The guerrillas have been holding an American missionary couple and a Filipino nurse hostage on Basilan for nearly a year.