31.   The administration has asked the Chinese for an official explanation through diplomatic channels, but has not received a response, senior State Department officials said on Wednesday.

32.   The capture of a Yugoslav officer immediately raised the prospect of a prisoner exchange, though it is not clear whether any diplomatic channels exist for such discussions.

33.   The project was also a concern for the Bush administration and was raised in diplomatic channels by James A. Baker III, who was then secretary of state.

34.   The State Department did not say what diplomatic channels it was using to communicate with Iraq.

35.   The State Department will forward through diplomatic channels details of the case providing probable cause to arrest the men, a department official said.

36.   The State Department has consistently opposed sanctions by New York and other states, saying they were complicating its efforts to handle the issue through diplomatic channels.

37.   The tougher talk is a shift for a region that had tried to work quietly, through diplomatic channels, to persuade Mugabe to follow the rule of law.

38.   The United States protested through diplomatic channels about security to Pakistan, a crucial ally in the campaign against the Taliban and al-Qaida network.

39.   Then his former wife, who was living in Italy, used diplomatic channels to get him out of Vietnam.

40.   To save it, he has used secret diplomatic channels through China since January to doggedly press for renewed high-level discussions with the North.