6 Contracts as of June 1, 1994; average reporter top minimum as of June 1, 1994; Reporter, Photographer Top Minimums in 106 Contracts as of June 1, 1995; average reporter top minimum as of June 1, 1995; Reporter, Photographer Top Minimums in 102 Contracts as of December 1, 1996; average reporter top minimum as of December 1, 1997; Reporter, Photographer Top Minimums in 102 Contracts as of April 1, 1997; average salary as of April 1, 1997 and U.S. Decennial life Tables for 1989-91); d. documents that verify trips to Guatemala and the expenses related to those trips (cfr. receipts for airline tickets on American Airlines Inc., Eastern International, and Pan Am World Airways, for trips 7,8,11,15,17,19, 20 and the name of Richard R. Blake Jr., Richard Blake, Douglas Owsley, and Guatemala; Hotel Camino Real de Guatemala; La Trattoria Guatemala; Guatemala and Restaurante Romanello, Guatemala); e. Airlines Inc., Taca 22 the tickets are in John Verson; Hertz Restaurante Marios, receipts for supplementary expenses associated with those trips (cfr. January 16, 1997 receipt from Helicópteros de Guatemala issued to Richard Blake; note that assigns the expenses incurred by Michael Shawcross and receipts; contract with Felipe Alva, Military Commissioner of Chiantla in the Department of Huehuetenango dated May 19, 1992; note from Sue H. Patterson, General Counsel of the Embassy of the United States of America, dated October 4, 1990, and a memorandum from Richard and Mary Blake, dated March 22, 1998 to which they attached receipts); f. March 24, 1998, statement by Doctor Malcolm Owen Slavin g. March 27, 1998, affidavit of Joanne Hoeper h. expenses of the representatives of the relatives of Mr. Nicholas Blake (cfr. May 21, 1997, note of Joanne Hoeper) 23. Neither the Inter-American Commission nor the State presented any evidence. * * * 24. In their brief on reparations, the representatives of the relatives of Mr. Nicholas Blake requested that at this stage of the proceedings the Court consider the statements made during the merits of the case by Samuel and Richard Blake Jr., brothers of Nicholas Blake. * * * 25. On August 19 and December 24, 1998, the relatives of Mr. Nicholas Blake submitted the evidence required by the Court to help it arrive at a more informed judgment (cfr. copy of the birth certificate of Richard Blake, Jr. and a certified copy of the passports of Mary Anderson Blake, Richard Randolph Blake, and Samuel Wheaton Blake; copy of the birth certificate of Nicholas Chapman Blake; November 19, 1998 authenticated note from the University of Vermont; December 14, 1998, letter from Rodney G. Dogherty, December 9, 1998 note from Francis B. Coombs Jr.; copies of articles written by Nicholas Blake for the Globe & the Mail, Philadelphia Inquirer Daily News, Harper’s, The Magazine of the Miami Herald, St. Louis Post Dispatch, and The Progressive; several