1.   After all, only the Government has the money with which to pay a ransom.

2.   But dead men paid no ransoms.

3.   Officials often complained that the victim of cattle theft preferred paying the ransom to instituting a court case.

4.   Reagan clung to the belief that he was not paying ransom but merely rewarding an intermediary for services rendered.

5.   The government refused to pay the ransom.

6.   The family is willing to pay ransom for his release.

7.   Asly, whose company also operates in the Middle East and other former Soviet republics, said he will not pay ransom.

8.   At least one organization has paid ransom in recent weeks to free kidnapped workers.

9.   A German journalist was freed after his employers had paid a ransom.

10.   But Chechens say the men are set free only when their relatives pay ransom.