21.   Another senior aide said, though, that it was clear to American officials that Yeltsin had given the order to move Russian troops into Kosovo.

22.   Arafat condemned the violence Friday and promised to deal with the situation, a senior aide to the PLO leader told Reuters.

23.   Ashcroft advised his senior aides of his decision at a meeting Tuesday.

24.   Asked about the dog Monday, one senior aide to Clinton switched to his speaker phone.

25.   At issue is who informed reporters on Tuesday of a sealed ruling rejecting assertions by Clinton of executive privilege to protect the testimony of his senior aides.

26.   At the same time, senior Clinton aides said Friday that Flynn is under active consideration for a variety of positions within the administration.

27.   At the time, their relationship was still clouded by a prickly give and take among senior aides.

28.   Bernd Schmidbauer, a senior aide to Chancellor Helmut Kohl, said he was not certain whether the searches would deter planned terrorist attacks.

29.   Both Ashcroft and Mueller, senior aides said, were determined to end decades of hostility and turf battles between the Justice Department and the FBI.

30.   A deal on the teachers issue was close, too, a senior White House aide said.