Abducted Italians safe: Odisha government  Bhubaneswar: The two
abducted Italians are safe and unharmed, the Odisha government
claimed today, a day after the Maoists named three negotiators
to hold talks with the authorities on the six-day-long hostage
crisis.  "We have information that the two Italians abducted by
the Maoists are safe and unharmed," Chief Secretary B K Patnaik
told reporters after the hostage crisis was reviewed at a high-
level meeting here.  The names of Maoist-nominated negotiators
are available with the government and that the matter is being
examined threadbare before proceeding further, he said.  The
Maoists had last night nominated Narayan Sanyal, politburo
member of CPI (Maoist) currently lodged in Giridih jail, and
civil rights activists Dandapani Mohanty and Biswapriya Kanungo
to hold talks.  However, Kanungo was reluctant to join the
negotiation process.  Voicing doubts over the sincerity of the
government towards meeting the 13 demands of the ultras, Kanungo
said, "Experience show