1.   Although the entire congressional liaison staff stayed on duty to try to broker an end to the shutdown, White House political director Doug Sosnik was deemed nonessential.

2.   Police will also post intelligence liaison staff to Washington and London and set up a dedicated terrorism investigation unit.

3.   He said police and customs drug liaison staff working with Thai authorities in Bangkok had alerted Auckland customs and police to the shipment.

4.   This agreement will enable the US liaison office staff to effectively perform its function of providing services to American citizens in distress.

5.   The liaison office staff is to leave for the Macedonian capital in early January.

6.   The onlookers -- mainly liaison office staff -- remained in a room adjacent to the terrace, out of sight of most of the prying photographic lenses poised below.