11.   NASA officials delayed the flight of the space shuttle Atlantis Thursday until Sunday after a ruptured fuel line at the launching pad discharged clouds of flammable hydrogen gas.

12.   Party officials delayed announcing the result while they investigated.

13.   Serb officials delayed the initiation of the pullout so they could characterize it as the United Nations assuming control rather than NATO.

14.   Serb officials delayed its initiation so they could characterize it as the UN assuming control rather than NATO.

15.   Space agency officials have delayed shuttle assembly missions to the station once planned for June and July to give them more time to diagnose the difficulty.

16.   The politically volatile decision was due almost three weeks ago, but federal officials have delayed it.

17.   The supervisor worried that law enforcement officials would delay the plane on the ground, the dispatcher said.

18.   They say Mexican customs officials are delaying U.S. delivery trucks at the border.

19.   Unlike South Africa, where officials delayed employing aggressive anti-AIDS programs for years, Brazil was among the first developing nations to deal with the epidemic on many fronts.

20.   With fears of unrest fanning across the city, stores were closed early and officials delayed the opening of the national university indefinitely.