21.   American citizens are subject to the laws and procedures of the country they are visiting, says Nyda Budig, a State Department press officer.

22.   An Indiana native, Lamb served in the Navy and as a Pentagon press officer.

23.   At that same session, the commission took no action on an allegation that Ribera bowed to political pressure from Maher when he named Welsh as his press officer.

24.   At first Courtney Caress, the press officer for the U.S. national team, said Thompson would talk about what happened in a few minutes.

25.   At the State Department, Nancy Beck, a press officer, declined to describe the man arrested as a diplomat.

26.   Before switching to the private sector a year ago, Ocaranza worked marathon hours as a press officer for Zedillo.

27.   A Defense Department press officer said he had seen the reports that Kunduz had fallen, but had no independent information from US central command.

28.   A more practical assessment comes from Robin Prestage, press officer for the British Tourist Authority in New York.

29.   After the Nixon experience, according to a White House press officer, all the taping systems there were dismantled.

30.   But perhaps the biggest blunder came in the form of an internal memo meant for London Stock Exchange press officers that was inadvertently leaked last May.