21.   The elections officials also said that difficulty in finding poll workers is reaching crisis levels in some states, and that better training is needed.

22.   The head of the United Nations enforcement agency said the narcotics problem in Russia has reached crisis level.

23.   The shooting of Israeli schoolgirls visiting the Jordan border came at a time when tensions in the Arab-Israeli peace process were already at the crisis level.

24.   The study noted concern by Defense Secretary William Cohen and others about a civilian-military gap and said they are justified but have not reached crisis levels.

25.   But with schools due to re-open next week, the situation could reach crisis levels.

26.   On occasion the Israelis have cut off supplies for a few days, reducing stocks to crisis levels.

27.   Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat on Sunday raised the spectre of renewed violence, and accused one another of ratcheting up tensions to crisis levels.

28.   The incidents have brought Thai-Myanmar relations to crisis level.