1.   And a letter, yellow with age, to Rhoda Patton from a general, written a year and a day after Patton was declared missing in action.

2.   Mrs. Triplett, on behalf of President Clinton and the United States Navy, I must inform you that your husband has been declared missing.

3.   On that long-gone afternoon when she was declared missing, she was nine years old.

4.   The following day, however, the cargo was declared missing.

5.   Five students also were hospitalized after the blaze, and three were declared missing.

6.   He never reached his apartment, and his wife declared him missing Friday.

7.   Some of those votes were later declared missing, then turned up in a locked box.

8.   The coast guard has not declared anyone missing because many of those aboard the ferry were believed to have been brought to shore, Botin said.

9.   The coast guard has not declared anyone missing because most or all of those aboard the ferry were believed to have made it ashore, Botin said.

10.   He said the authorities were still searching for those declared missing after the slayings.