21.   Clinton put out the word to aides Thursday night that he had settled on the list of new Cabinet secretaries.

22.   He said he needs a new secretary.

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

24.   His new secretary attended and was supposed to take notes, but she made more comments and asked more questions that most of us.

25.   In addition, the new British foreign secretary, Malcolm Rifkind, is scheduled to arrive in Washington on Wednesday for talks on Bosnia.

26.   In the longer term, the new secretary general will have to preside over the delicate task of bringing in former Eastern bloc nations into the alliance.

27.   Just ask Diana, the Princess of Wales, who is in the market for a new secretary, among other things.

28.   Kofi Annan, the Ghanaian in charge of U.N. peacekeeping operations, emerged the clear leader Wednesday in the race for a new secretary general.

29.   Kofi Annan, the new secretary general of the United Nations, made a significant statement on the issue early this month.

30.   Lynn Scarlett, the new assistant secretary for policy, was president of the Reason Foundation, a libertarian think tank opposed in principle to most government regulation.