1.   Clandestine efforts to gather financial secrets, especially from U.S. allies, seem even more dubious.

2.   One idea briefly considered by the Clinton administration called for a clandestine effort to drain money out of bank accounts that could be tied to al-Qaeda.

3.   The clandestine effort began shortly after the Gulf War ended and went on for five years, without success.

4.   The nuclear weapons inspection system under the International Atomic Energy Agency must be enforced, he said, to help detect clandestine efforts to build weapons.

5.   This is no clandestine effort, mind you.

6.   Among those involved in the clandestine efforts, Maariv said, were Slim Fast owner Dan Abrams and James Wolfensohn, president of the World Bank.

7.   His report will also examine how effective the long-term U.N. monitoring system will be in preventing Saddam from resuming his clandestine efforts.

8.   No evidence has emerged of an active Japanese weapons program, and analyst Hideshi Takesada, the defense institute professor, says a clandestine effort is highly unlikely.

9.   The Clinton administration believes the project is part of a clandestine Iranian effort to develop nuclear weapons.

10.   The government apparently fears the European force might interfere with troop movements or its clandestine efforts to equip its army in defiance of a U.N. arms embargo.