21.   Another top aide, Kiyohide Hayakawa, confessed to killing a sect member who wanted to leave.

22.   Arafat and his top aides are scrambling to address, or at least to appear to address, rising Palestinian and international demands for reform.

23.   Arthur Pincus, spokesman for the NHL, said Bettman and his top aides were unavailable for comment.

24.   As Briceno huddles with his top aides over breakfast at a street-side cafe, La Macarena fills up with rebels.

25.   As he does for almost every calamity in the city, the mayor rushed to the scene, taking his top aides with him.

26.   As local officials counted ballot by ballot, and chad by chad, the candidates and their top aides again contended for the moral high ground.

27.   As recently as last weekend, Clinton and his top aides were certain that the full House would approve at least one article of impeachment.

28.   As recently as Wednesday night, some top White House aides were playing down the possibility of a summit meeting as potentially vague and risky.

29.   As President Clinton continued to talk tough against Iraq, his top aides launched another diplomatic effort Saturday to avert a military confrontation with the Middle Eastern country.

30.   As the Arizona legislative session drew to a close, a top aide of Gov. Fife Symington compiled a list of friends and enemies of the governor.