1.   After being introduced, the officials from the two sides had little choice but to mingle.

2.   During the past week, members of Congress and local officials from across the country have urged Clinton to intervene.

3.   French and German officials began consultations with officials from the other four nations.

4.   In the rural areas, angry farmers prevented officials from evicting those who were in arrears with their mortgage payments.

5.   Officials from Aiken studied those systems and spent two years planning, realizing that they wanted more than a text-type bulletin board.

6.   Officials from one country told Ellena that its citizens had enough stress coping with high unemployment and other transition ills.

7.   Referee Alf Buksh is understood to have complained in his match report of being verbally abused by officials from both teams.

8.   Senior officials from both countries make regular visits on a reciprocal basis.

9.   The government has banned public officials from accepting gifts from foreigners.