41.   The tightened security came after a car with North Korean diplomatic plates sped toward the police cordon, stopped a few feet short and drove away on Friday night.

42.   What most people must accept now is that security does not come from working for a big company.

43.   But security came at a price.

44.   The presidents of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania said Wednesday they were confident of admission to NATO but stressed that regional security would also come through reform in Russia.

45.   The relaxed security came after a veiled concession from Prime Minister John Major that he was inching toward accepting the Irish Republican Army ceasefire as permanent.