1.   A senior American diplomat visiting here on Friday expressed U.S. support for the coming elections and warned of deteriorating security in the troubled province of East Timor.

2.   Algiers is responding to a deteriorating security situation that has led many to predict that the present secular regime could fall as early as this year.

3.   But they acknowledge that in a deteriorating security environment, such methods could begin to play a more prominent role again.

4.   Foreign Minister Shimon Peres told Palestine Liberation Organization officials at a meeting in Alexandria, Egypt, that the deteriorating security sitiuation was now threatening the peace agreement.

5.   In August, deteriorating security in Bujumbura led CARE to put its office on alert and to prepare to evacuate.

6.   In early April, the U.S. State Department warned American citizens against going to Israel because of the deteriorating security situation.

7.   President Vladimir Putin made a surprise trip to the Mozdok military base near Chechnya Wednesday night to review the deteriorating security situation in the secessionist republic.

8.   Opposition parties have harshly criticized authorities for their silence over the deteriorating security situation.

9.   Aidid and SNF chief Gen. Omar Hajii have been in Libya for a week discussing the deteriorating security situation in Somalia with Libyan leader Col. Moammar Gadhafi.

10.   An Ausaid spokeswoman said the International Red Cross had also suspended aid work because of the deteriorating security situation.