1.   Instead, each ethnic area would gain full autonomy, with the capital, Kabul, serving as a coordinating center and a common meeting ground.

2.   Also Wednesday, the Health Ministry set up a national coordinating center at the Disease Control Unit and a telephone line for public inquiries about the virus.

3.   It operates through regional centers in Atlanta, Moscow, Paris and Tokyo, with a coordinating center in London.

4.   Jennifer Aikin, director of the clinical coordinating center at the National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project in Pittsburgh, said patients have had some success with clonidine.

5.   Jennifer Aikin, director of the clinical coordinating center at the National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Valve Project in Pittsburgh, said patients have had some success with clonidine.

6.   Russian rescue services launched a search of the area for survivors, said Anatoly Rogachev, head of the Emergency Situations Ministry rescue coordinating center in Vladivostok.

7.   Rescuers were searching the area for survivors from land, air and water, said Anatoly Rogachev, head of the Emergency Situations Ministry rescue coordinating center in Vladivostok.

8.   The Russian news agency Itar-Tass said preliminary data received by the Vladivostok rescue coordinating center indicated four people had died, including the captain.

9.   Typhoon relief and coordinating centers were set up all over southern Taiwan, and officials warned residents against landslides and flash floods.

10.   He said there was no timetable for the setting up of a coordinating center.