31.   The United States is the largest contributor to the UN budget, and the Clinton administration acknowledges that the US budget predicament is causing serious complications here.

32.   The US administration acknowledged Tuesday that there had been some foot-dragging on a plan to send an international police force to Bosnia and pledged to correct that situation.

33.   It was the first time the administration acknowledged having back-channel talks with the junta, which it insists must relinquish power.