1.   Another American, Sandra Chase, recently won her release from an Ecuadoran jail with the help of Rep. Corinne Brown, D-Fla.

2.   A Cypriot envoy said he had failed to win the release of three captured American soldiers in talks with Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic and blamed continued NATO bombing.

3.   After about two weeks, he said, his supervisor at Air Guinea was able to win his release.

4.   After the RCMP collared him at work, Richardson won release from Canadian jail and appealed for leniency from US authorities.

5.   But De La Hoya never signed a contract for the fight and then he sued his former promoter, Bob Arum, winning a release from their contract.

6.   Chaudhry, at one time a defendant, won release by becoming a state witness.

7.   Clinton says his efforts have won the release of two prominent Chinese dissidents in the past eight months.

8.   Hamud has helped win the release of two of his clients.

9.   He confided to Charles Hinkle, an old friend from Oregon, that to win his release he falsely said he no longer heard voices.

10.   He posed for photographs with them and won the release of two hostages.