41.   For China, the rise in asylum seekers at diplomatic missions has been a political nightmare.

42.   For example, when the United States exchanged diplomatic missions with Vietnam, some congressmen and senators talked freely of building up Vietnam to counterbalance China.

43.   He championed, in vague terms, more traditional diplomatic missions.

44.   Hamas is opposed to a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and it has engineered suicide attacks during previous diplomatic missions by Zinni.

45.   He also served in diplomatic missions from British India to London and as an influential member of the Punjabi legislature.

46.   He has zoomed across the globe, with diplomatic missions to Russia, Africa, Haiti and North Korea.

47.   He went to the Indian diplomatic mission and paid her fare back home.

48.   He will hold the rank of undersecretary general, carrying out diplomatic missions for the UN chief.

49.   He worked instead with his security advisers behind the scenes to try to keep his urgent diplomatic mission to the region from being swallowed by the widening bloodshed.

50.   His diplomatic mission last week keeps that deal on track.