They had recordings of telephone negotiations with Koresh and even video footage he had helpfully filmed of himself locked inside the compound.
Telephone negotiations between the kidnappers and Granger Telecom failed to secure their release, and the four men were beheaded after a failed rescue attempt by the Chechen security services.
The deal followed telephone negotiations between Pat McQuaid, president of the International Cycling Union, and the Éditions Philippe Amaury group, which owns the Tour de France.
After telephone negotiations between the gunmen and the governor, Hosni Zorob, the militants left the building, saying they received assurances the security officers would get their jobs back.
Gen. Mirko Norac, suspected in the killings of Serbian civilians in 1992, remains in hiding, but has reportedly entered into telephone negotiations with the government.
Local tribal elders and clerics continued telephone negotiations and were struggling with conflicting demands from the captors, who said alternately that they wanted ransom and the release of Taliban prisoners.
The other part, interspersed with the music, is an approved biography of Graham, who talks about his life and conducts an endless round of entertainingly profane telephone negotiations for the valedictory concerts.
Before the night was out, Arledge had successfully completed telephone negotiations with Koppel, by agreeing that ABC would pay him what one knowledgeable participant says is between five and six million dollars a year.
Officials said a final round of telephone negotiations between the Treasury under secretary for international affairs, John Taylor, and Koh Yong Guan, managing director of Singapore's monetary authority, resolved the sticking point: the treatment of capital flows during periods of financial crisis.
On Monday the Thais handled the siege gingerly, keeping their troops at a distance from the hospital and agreeing, in mobile-telephone negotiations, to halt their shelling and allow wounded Karen civilians to cross the border for medical care.
