Captives Given Cake and Relief Supplies

Boxes of food, a birthday cake and other supplies were delivered to 20 mostly foreign hostages who have been held by Muslim rebels since April 23 in the dense Philippine jungle, officials said. There still was no indication of when leaders of the extremist Abu Sayyaf group might free their captives. The group was kidnapped from the Malaysian diving resort of Sipadan Island and brought to nearby Jolo Island in the Philippines. The Abu Sayyaf is the smaller but more violent of two Muslim rebel groups fighting for an independent Islamic state in the southern Philippines.