World IN BRIEF : COLOMBIA : Rebels Seek Talks on U.S. Hostages

Leftist guerrillas said they will free two American hostages if U.S. diplomats negotiate unspecified conditions for their release, a Bogota newspaper reported. The fate of a third American hostage was unknown. The men were captured last week as President Bush met in Colombia with three South American leaders to discuss ways to stop drug trafficking. The newspaper El Tiempo said relatives of two of the Americans--James Donnelly of Detroit and David Kent of Indianapolis--were contacted in Medellin, where they traveled to gain news about the captives. The third American, the Rev. Francisco Amico Ferrari of Rochester, N.Y., was kidnaped in Cali on Thursday.