21.   In the months after the massacre, a special Israeli investigating commission cited lax security and proposed changes to assure that such carnage was not repeated.

22.   Instead, the blame falls on lax security regulations and a national complacency about the danger that could come from hijacked commercial jetliners.

23.   Kabila backed out of the talks, complaining of lax security on board the ship, and saying he had not received a proper invitation.

24.   Kramer, Mrs. Hoffman and Mrs. Guidi have sued Inter-Continental Hotels Corp., accusing it of lax security for what happened in the restaurant of the Semiramis Inter-Continental Hotel.

25.   Ministry of Defense munition and small arms stockpiles have notoriously lax security, making them good supply sources for black market arms dealers.

26.   News reports have suggested Osama bid Laden may have tried to take advantage of lax security in Russia to obtain nuclear arms.

27.   No evidence has emerged that lax security allowed the terrorists to board the four planes that crashed that day.

28.   Patrick also criticizes lax security at airports and major government buildings.

29.   Richardson and Gordon will need to generate wholesale change in lax security attitudes at the national laboratories.

30.   So it was that, long before the Lee case made Washington hypersensitive about lax security, a push was underway to put key nuclear secrets under tighter lock.