21.   A search for a US ambassador has begun, and the administration has prepared plans to upgrade the current diplomatic mission in Vietnam to a full embassy.

22.   Administration officials say the sides still have to work out the timing of exchanging diplomatic missions.

23.   After his defeat, Willkie undertook a diplomatic mission for President Roosevelt and was asked how he could square his cooperation with his earlier charges.

24.   Bush spoke at a news conference here on the second day of his diplomatic mission to Europe after attending an informal summit meeting with NATO leaders.

25.   But he also wanted to intervene in behalf of Greeks, who were then rebelling against Ottoman rule, by sending a diplomatic mission to Athens.

26.   But over the years Annan has been given assignments in difficult moments, and has undertaken risky diplomatic missions and managed them with quiet success.

27.   But the diplomatic mission would also refer the case to Treasury for enforcement.

28.   But the trip has made several diplomatic missions uneasy.

29.   But US officials have made it clear that they oppose a diplomatic mission by Annan to Iraq.

30.   By all accounts in the Middle East, the American diplomatic mission has failed.