11.   International officials also are alarmed by the increasingly hostile tone of Bosnian Serb state media.

12.   It also alarmed international officials concerned about the prospect of another Balkan conflict.

13.   Officials are particularly alarmed by the spread of diseases that had been virtually wiped out in the Soviet era.

14.   The federal raids have angered and alarmed local officials.

15.   The growing exotic animal business alarms Ukrainian officials, who worry about a parallel rise in the cross-border trade of rare and endangered animals.

16.   Two United Nations aircraft were hit by large-caliber weapons for the first time, alarming U.N. officials more accustomed to dealing with small-arms fire.

17.   While the Coast Guard has gotten some new weapons, the intruders in that incident had rocket launchers and other heavy arms, alarming Japanese officials.

18.   Apart from the surge in trafficking operations, officials have been alarmed by what they call the spread of drug addiction among their own people.

19.   Scores of people on Thursday alarmed officials by returning to the muddied banks of the river to begin reconstructing their shanties, using materials salvaged from the floodwaters.

20.   Shanghai is sinking into the sea under the weight of its rapidly erected skyscrapers at a rate which has alarmed city officials, it was reported Tuesday.