21.   Some commentators saw no other option but to keep aid to Russia flowing.

22.   Some commentators see little difference between the terrorist attacks and the U.S.-led bombardments of nearby Yugoslavia or Iraq to enforce post-Gulf War airspace controls.

23.   Some European commentators saw no other option.

24.   Some commentators saw it as an attempt by Russia to counter NATO expansion, which the Kremlin was quick to deny.

25.   Some social commentators see it all as a backlash against an increasingly complex, competitive and computerized world.

26.   Commentators see it as an attempt by the leadership of the fractured left to regain its credibilty and tap in to popular anger at government reforms.

27.   Commentators see the protest as an attempt by the leadership of the fractured left to regain its credibility and tap in to popular anger at government reforms.

28.   Commentators have since seen this detention as a ruse to keep Sobhraj in their hands before completing the deportation arrangements.

29.   Commentators saw the initiative as evidence of growing confidence in the business federation, which is increasingly taking on the role of a right-wing think-tank.

30.   Meanwhile, many Asian newspaper commentators saw the Iraqi offensive as political opportunism by President Bill Clinton in an election year.