31.   Following a larger, violent demonstration on Thursday, the U.S. State Department authorized nonessential embassy personnel and family members to leave Skopje if they wished.

32.   Flowers arrived, all checked by hospital security guards, and embassy personnel, fraught with fatigue and tears, waited anxiously for news of her condition.

33.   He and other embassy personnel who used to live at Graystone now are staying at the formal embassy a few hundred feet down the road.

34.   In Damascus, the U.S. Embassy refused to comment on security precautions, but spokesman Steve Seche said embassy personnel were following the situation.

35.   Instead, she said, embassy personnel told her to leave.

36.   Meanwhile, embassy personnel will soon move from one set of temporary offices to another.

37.   Most dependents of U.S., South African and other embassy personnel left voluntarily in recent days.

38.   Non-essential embassy personnel had been told not to come to the embassy over the weekend because of the protests.

39.   Non-essential embassy personnel had been told not to come to the embassy over the weekend because of the mounting protests there.

40.   On Tuesday, the Italian, French and British embassies said they would send all nonessential embassy personnel out of the country.