11.   An independent politician says that he met secretly last weekend with Miguel Rodriguez Orejuela.

12.   As firefighters inched toward controlling forest fires in Chiapas, opposition politicians said Tuesday that political strife continues to rage in the southeastern state.

13.   As usual, however, one should pay less attention to what politicians say than to what they do.

14.   At least that is what some politicians, editorial writers and police union leaders are constantly saying about him.

15.   Berlusconi favors an early election, which politicians say could well bring him back into power.

16.   Besides, the politicians say, leaders are elected to make decisions on behalf of the people.

17.   A German politician once said of Chancellor Helmut Kohl that if he had been the Titanic, the iceberg would have sunk.

18.   But all three Harlem politicians say they are determined to run.

19.   But at least some politicians said that the violence might have been averted if someone else had been armed at the school.