11.   He accused its authorities of withholding knowledge from his family that another member, Franklyn Curtis, had previously been accused of molesting children.

12.   In protests to the State Department, diplomats here are accusing the authorities of violating international conventions governing access to detainees.

13.   It has also angered officials in Queens, who accuse the authority of giving up too soon.

14.   Kosovo Albanian leader Ibrahim Rugova, arguing that there is no liberation army, has accused Serb authorities of using the raids to ethnically cleanse Kosovo of Albanians.

15.   Larry Frankel, executive director of the ACLU, accused city authorities of overreacting to the provocations and relatively petty crimes of some demonstrators.

16.   Media and human rights groups have accused Russian authorities of torturing prisoners held in the camp.

17.   Opposition party candidates have accused the authorities of delaying results to give officials time to stuff ballot boxes, and some have called for a new election.

18.   Russian and Western newspapers, expressing a public mood of helplessness and outrage, have openly accused the authorities of neglecting their duties while men were in peril.

19.   The controller also accused juvenile authorities of running a loose office with few controls to deter or catch thieves.

20.   The politician, Anderson K. Mazoka, accused the authorities of delaying the release of election results to give officials time to stuff the ballot boxes.