41.   The irony is that many officials in Washington agree in private that their policy is inconsistent.

42.   They were planning to evacuate the seventy American officials still in the country.

43.   ...a worried official in sombre black.

44.   ...officials in full regalia.

45.   By this time, officials in the Brussels control tower could tell that something was very wrong.

46.   According to Western reports, officials in Xinjiang had acknowledged the impact of rising nationalist sentiment across the border in the Soviet Union.

47.   Mozambican officials had reportedly become dissatisfied with Moi as a mediator because of close ties between the MNR leader Afonso Dhlakama and senior officials in the Kenyan government.

48.   The size of the yes vote was greeted with delight by officials in both republics.

49.   A senior official in the State Statistical Bureau warned that demand had to be controlled to avoid runaway inflation.

50.   A similar proposal to reduce forces in the Asia-Pacific region had been mooted by Soviet officials in November.