21.   At the United Nations the initial response seemed promising.

22.   Her response seemed borne of panic and implied she indeed owned property abroad but was not the only one.

23.   Several large impacts were heard in the city center, but the response seemed muted.

24.   The Israeli responses all seem inadequate to counter the Shiite guerrilla.

25.   The second mistake in extraordinary times is to follow the basic impulse to go too far in curbing liberties, to justify whatever response seems necessary.

26.   U.S. Ambassador Prudence Bushnell went on television Wednesday night and tried to explain to the Kenyan public why the American response seemed slow and confused.