11.   Base spokesman Jesus Rodriguez said the base had been stepped up from the second of four alert levels, Bravo to third-grade Charlie in recent hours.

12.   Blakeley said the peace force is reviewing security daily, but alert levels remain unchanged from normal.

13.   Blakeley said the peace force is reviewing security on a daily basis, but alert levels remain unchanged from normal.

14.   But the camp stayed at the high alert level of orange Thursday, which requires personnel to wear flak jackets and helmets when outside.

15.   Embassy officials refused to confirm or comment on their alert level, saying security issues are never discussed.

16.   Following the Cole explosion, U.S. forces in Saudi Arabia and other parts of the Gulf were placed on the highest alert level.

17.   Government spokesman Rigoberto Tiglao said the government would reduce police alert levels Monday after several days of calm in the capital, Manila.

18.   He said the destroyer was on Bravo alert, a moderate security alert level that requires posting guards, controling entry and other security measures.

19.   Julio Sabit, of the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology, said the alert level does not yet warrant evacuation, but that could easily change.

20.   Levels of the Mekong River reached alert levels in mid-August in central and northern Cambodia but have since dropped slightly.