1.  Attacks in September involving Shining Path guerrillas marked a shift of Sendero operations from the Andes to the eastern Amazon departments.

2.  The UCS lost ground in the eastern departments of Beni, Pando and Santa Cruz, only to improve dramatically its support in the Andes.

3.  Former European Affairs minister Pierre Moscovici also lost his seat in the eastern department of Doubs.

4.  Experts from George Washington University and the University of Western Kentucky located the lost city in the dense, jungle-covered eastern department of Olancho.

5.  Monday police reported that inmates at the El Barne prison, in the eastern department of Boyaca, took a guard hostage.

6.  Monday, police reported that inmates at the El Barne prison, in the eastern department of Boyaca, took a guard hostage.