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American man arrested in Haiti for illegal arms

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- Police have arrested an American man on charges of importing arms to Haiti illegally, a government spokesman said Saturday.

James White Glenn was arrested Friday in the coastal city of Gonaives, 60 miles northwest of Port-au-Prince, in possession of assault weapons, munitions, and grenade launchers, spokesman Mario Dupuy said.

The U.S. Embassy said it was looking into the arrest but was not immediately able to confirm it.

Three Americans still held by rebels in Colombia

BOGOTA, Colombia -- The three Americans are being held deep in the Colombian jungle, guarded by rebels who promise to kill them if rescuers get too close.

If there was any doubt the rebels were serious, they dispelled it Monday when 10 hostages elsewhere were executed in a botched rescue attempt. Now the Americans appear no closer to freedom than the they were three months ago when their plane fell out of the sky and they were taken into rebel hands.

Little information has emerged since the single-engine Cessna carrying Stansell, Marc Gonsalves, Tom Howes, Tom Janis and Colombian army Sgt. Luis Alcides Cruz developed engine trouble and crash-landed on Feb. 13 in southern Colombia near where rebel squad commanders were holding a meeting.

The rebels pounced on the crash site, executed Janis and Cruz and took the other three away, calling them prisoners of war.

-- From wire reports