11.   The Bush administration declared last week that widespread famine in Afghanistan had been averted, a claim that aid officials working inside the Central Asian country dispute.

12.   The Clinton administration on Wednesday declared the ecological equivalent of war against an invasion of unwanted and mostly foreign species that are steadily infiltrating the American landscape.

13.   The Wilson administration declared the report a complete vindication of its position.

14.   This week, the Bush administration declared war on behalf of reality and against political illusion.

15.   While praising Sharon, the Bush administration has reluctantly declared Arafat its only true interlocutor among Palestinian leaders.

16.   With the pulp mill closed, the administration could declare a breach of contract and end the logging.

17.   But during a Sunday service at Mosque Maryam, he also hinted at doubts about whether the administration should declare war on terrorism.

18.   In Washington on Thursday, the Clinton administration declared its outrage at the latest reports of massacres by reimposing sanctions that had been withdrawn as a reward to Milosevic.

19.   Meanwhile in Herat the newly established Taliban administration declared a three-day holiday, according to United Nations workers in that western Afghan city.

20.   The Clinton administration declared its outrage at the latest reports of massacres by reimposing sanctions that had been withdrawn as a reward to Milosevic.