11.   Aid workers say the sudden influx of refugees appears to have taken U.N. officials by surprise.

12.   All entreaties to the ruling Croatian Democratic Union party officials by the European administrators to intervene, or curb the activities of the underworld, are ignored.

13.   Brazoria County officials by Friday afternoon did not expect significant flooding along Oyster Creek.

14.   Brazilian officials said they would be traveling to Washington to discuss the plan with IMF officials by next week.

15.   But Attorney General Janet Reno removed that obstacle in June, effectively overruling the drug officials by declaring that no such prosecutions would take place.

16.   But Rokhlin has worried Yeltsin officials by stirring up opposition to the government within the military.

17.   But the defeat did catch some administration officials by surprise.

18.   But this is the first time voters will elect such a high-ranking official by mail.

19.   Carey angered many officials by abolishing the four corruption-filled regional bureaucracies, known as conferences.

20.   Chavez, an ardent nationalist, has irritated American officials by refusing to allow their anti-narcotics flights to fly over his nation.