21.   American troops arrived at midday around the presidential palace, an impressive white building with wide lawns in an area of statues of national heroes set in scruffy parks.

22.   Americans respond as enthusiastically as the Russians, greeting the new national hero with a ticker-tape parade in New York on his return.

23.   An extra-large contingent of reporters is expected Thursday night when he plays in the Canadian capital, in a country where he is a national hero.

24.   An instant national hero, Shimizu thrilled a Japan that has been deeply troubled by political scandals and economic malaise.

25.   And it turned the fallen pilot, Wang Wei, into a national hero, memorializing him in relentless news media coverage.

26.   And President Clinton is expected to fly in to celebrate the comeback mission of the national hero who was the first American to orbit the planet.

27.   Another hat trick, this one in the World Cup against Saudi Arabia, elevated him to a national hero.

28.   At home in Yaroslavl, Petrov is still puzzling over how he ended up a national hero.

29.   At the Atlanta Olympics, Freeman had taken the silver medal and had become a national hero.

30.   At least once, government thugs in leather jackets roughed up the national hero.