21.   An option, however, is that Fish and Game Director Boyd Gibbons could declare a state of emergency and order the poisoning.

22.   An angry Currie lambasted Hodges for ignoring her warning and for declaring a state of emergency.

23.   And even if the state is declared, the impact is not clear.

24.   Anticipation also was felt in South Carolina, where Charleston Mayor Joseph Riley declared a state of emergency.

25.   Arafat declared a state of emergency in the West Bank and Gaza Strip on Sunday and ordered his forces to round up suspects.

26.   Arafat has threatened to declare a state next year if negotiations fail to produce a final peace agreement on the status of the West Bank and Gaza.

27.   As the haze thickens over the nations of Southeast Asia, Indonesia has declared a state of emergency and issued an official apology to its neighbors.

28.   Both Gov. Edwin Edwards of Louisiana and Gov. Kirk Fordice of Mississippi declared states of emergency as state and federal rescue workers began assessing the damage.

29.   Acting Governor Jane M. Swift is also urging federal officials to have a state of emergency declared in the commonwealth.

30.   Afterward, Hodges declared a state of emergency and briefly deployed state troopers to watch for plutonium trucks.