11.   President Clinton has maintained an ambiguous position on the arms-versus-talks stalemate.

12.   The Dutch are in an ambiguous position, having signed international treaties pledging to combat the drug trade.

13.   The IRA-allied Sinn Fein party has stuck doggedly to its own carefully ambiguous position on punishment beatings and killings.

14.   Thus the decision to delay the new law puts consular officials and foreign guests to Russia in an ambiguous position.

15.   They have taken a more ambiguous position, saying that extradition would be useful only in the context of a multinational agreement.