21.   But in recent weeks, Robin Cook, the British foreign secretary, has threatened Milosevic with extraordinary directness.

22.   But later in the day, Husseini agreed not to accompany Cook, as long as the foreign secretary still visited him in Jerusalem.

23.   But the British foreign secretary later insisted the current action was limited to targets in Afghanistan.

24.   But the foreign secretaries of the two countries announced Friday that they had ended three rounds of discussions here without breaking a deadlock over procedures for the talks.

25.   Cook, foreign secretary in the Labor government, is a striking example of the impact political change can have on foreign policy.

26.   Deve Gowda proposed a wide-ranging dialogue at the level of foreign secretary, which in both countries is the top civil service post in the Foreign Ministry.

27.   He is a chemistry professor at Irvine and serves as foreign secretary of the National Academy of Sciences.

28.   He is the front-runner here in Kerry North, outpacing a list of candidates that includes Dick Spring, a former foreign secretary and deputy prime minister.

29.   He served as a junior Home Office minister, and was considered a candidate to become foreign secretary, according to The Times of London.

30.   He takes along his new foreign secretary, blunt-spoken trade union leader Ernest Bevin.