11.   Pakistan announced Monday that it had evacuated its embassy staff from the Afghan capital of Kabul, leaving the Taliban further isolated.

12.   Over the years, the State Department has made occasional reference to its embassy staff in Kabul.

13.   Scaling back big embassy staffs such as those in London and Paris, now that the Cold War has ended some of the demand for intelligence-gathering.

14.   State Department officials who declined to be identified said the embassy staff simply used the information provided by Guatemalan authorities as a matter of course.

15.   The embassy staff was shredding the last of their documents and burning money lest it fall into enemy hands while the storm of humanity raged outside.

16.   The new upper floors will be occupied by embassy staff conducting classified business -- presumably the CIA, defense and political analysts and the ambassador and other diplomats.

17.   The U.S. ambassador in Beijing, James Sasser, and the embassy staff on Sunday issued a statement expressing sorrow at the bombing.

18.   Three injured American embassy staff, who could walk, were flown to South Africa last night.

19.   Venezuela and Iran are members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, and Iran is believed to have its largest embassy staff in the Americas in Caracas.

20.   Use of the latest communications technology to gather much of the information that was once done by embassy staff.