11.   David Heymann, executive director of communicable diseases division of WHO, said the agency would have no official comment until the issue was presented to the assembly.

12.   Environmentalists called for an even stricter rule, saying the agency was accepting unusually high cancer risks in this approach.

13.   Even if the city is not legally bound to pay the agencies in advance, that has been its practice, the agencies said.

14.   Federal officials said police agencies from a dozen states, Mexico and the Dominican Republic participated in the investigation and arrests.

15.   Federal Communications Commission general counsel William Kennard said his agency is in the midst of taking action against Grove.

16.   He acknowledged that the program has lagged but said agency critics fail to account for budget problems and the time it takes for a bureaucracy to get things done.

17.   He said the agency picked four picocuries as the action level because it is the lowest that can be achieved at a reasonable price with current abatement technology.

18.   He said the agency, like many others in Washington, has grown fat and must re-examine its functions.

19.   He would not say which agency.

20.   In the process of fixing that problem, engineers created the conditions that led to the minor damage to the less critical wiper O-ring, the space agency said.