21.   Annan had asked for the maps in an effort to size up what was on the sprawling presidential palace compounds.

22.   Any semblance of progress has been stalled during the past two years due, in part, to the revolving door at the presidential palace.

23.   Annan was right to fly to Baghdad last February and negotiate a deal allowing U.N. weapons investigators to inspect Iraqi presidential palaces.

24.   Argentine President Carlos Menem once locked his wife out of the presidential palace.

25.   Army and police units around the presidential palace were reinforced.

26.   Aristide is sitting in the presidential palace, a fledgling Haitian government is functioning and security has been restored to the point that commerce is picking up.

27.   Army guards stepped aside, leaving Mahuad besieged in the presidential palace.

28.   As demonstrators took to the streets of Caracas and other cities to demand the return of Chavez, loyalist soldiers took control of the presidential palace.

29.   As Paniagua left the Congress on his way to the presidential palace, he waded into small, enthusiastic crowds and blew kisses.

30.   As Clinton spoke here, Russian forces continued to pound away at targets in Grozny, particularly the presidential palace, a stronghold of Chechen rebels.