1.   And NATO has set up a liaison office in Skopje, the Macedonian capital, to share military information.

2.   Administration officials said Saturday that Joseph Sullivan, head of the American liaison office in Havana, is not scheduled to meet with Cuban officials until next week.

3.   Alexis Herman, head of the liaison office and now nominee for secretary of labor, helped to oversee the plans.

4.   But any plan to open up liaison offices -- a precursor to diplomatic recognition -- should be out of the question until the inspections take place.

5.   Clinton ordered U.S. diplomats to open a liaison office in Hanoi last January, citing further progress by the Vietnamese government in accounting for POWs and MIAS.

6.   Diplomatic sources said that the first step would involve the creation of liaison offices, with diplomatic recognition left to a later stage.

7.   ECOMOG officials, who do not have a liaison office here, could not be reached for comment.

8.   Even on simpler matters, such as allowing the tribunal to open a liaison office in Belgrade, the Milosevic government has balked.

9.   Even with the recent friction, North Korea and the U.S. are likely to exchange liaison offices and step up commercial and other ties later this year.

10.   FBI Director Louis Freeh announced Monday that the bureau will soon open a liaison office here.