41.   To head the liaison office, the State Department has named James H. Hall, a longtime foreign service officer and a former Army captain in Vietnam.

42.   Twenty-four aerospace companies surround the base, including a support center for Boeing and a liaison office for Lockheed Martin.

43.   Under the October accord, the two countries promised to exchange liaison offices.

44.   Vietnamese officials said they expected the liaison offices to open within a month or two but that they doubted Clinton would soon raise them to embassy status.

45.   While keeping some sanctions, the United States has contributed emergency food aid to the North and has expressed its readiness to exchange liaison offices whenever the North wants.

46.   Would you regard it as an obstacle to inter-Korean relations if the U.S. makes too much progress too soon on setting up its own liaison office in Pyongyang?

47.   Yet the crowd took its grievances to the doorstep of the most potent symbol of China here, the Chinese government liaison office.

48.   Other reports mentioned the Israel-PLO liaison office at Erez crossing between Israel and Gaza.

49.   Palestinians fired an anti-tank grenade at the district liaison office in southern Gaza on Thursday, the military said, during a heavy exchange of gunfire nearby.