11.   Voting was postponed in three areas of Ethiopia --the Afar and Somali regions and Harer town --where the security situation was precarious.

12.   What change of perception in the security situation has led to our accepting that diminution of capability.

13.   Sir John later had talks with an SDLP delegation, also on the worsening security situation.

14.   Although U.S. officials say that in the last few months, the security situation has deteriorated, not everyone shares that assessment.

15.   Annan condemned the attack and told Wahid that the security situation in West Timor was unacceptable.

16.   Bassam Abu Sharif, an Arafat aide, said reforms were impossible to consider in the current security situation.

17.   Administration officials said one purpose of the mission was to assess the uneasy security situation there and provide moral support to Karzai.

18.   Algiers is responding to a deteriorating security situation that has led many to predict that the present secular regime could fall as early as this year.

19.   Bush aides bristle at the notion that they are sitting idly by as the security situation in the Middle East deteriorates.

20.   But Col. Tono Suratman, the Indonesian military commander here, blamed guerrillas for the worsening security situation in the countryside.