1.   It appeared that sympathetic foreign governments regarded exports to Lithuania to alleviate the Soviet blockade as diplomatically contentious.

2.   As President Bush pointed out, terrorists hide in the shadows, seeking aid and comfort from sympathetic governments, often in Third World countries.

3.   The capture of Kabul would likely speed the process of replacing the ruling Islamic Taliban militia with an interim government sympathetic to the U.S.-led war on terrorism.

4.   They were not a clandestine band of wealthy industrialists pressing self-serving policies on an ideologically sympathetic government without regard to the public good.

5.   But the ban has never completely prevented Muslim-led Bosnian government forces from getting weapons bought clandestinely or donated by sympathetic governments and smuggled across the Croatian border.

6.   But with a government sympathetic to settlement expansion in power in Israel, Palestinians say leaving the buildings empty is an invitation to trouble.

7.   That may be changing now that South Africa has a black-led government sympathetic to the mostly black National Union of Mineworkers.

8.   A coalition of voluntary euthanasia groups warned Thursday that if the Andrews Bill was passed, they would take the issue to state governments sympathetic to their cause.

9.   Alunan noted that terrorists now have access to funds and high technology and are supported by sympathetic governments as well as criminal gangs.