81.   In Washington, White House and State Department officials pledged to work closely with Sharon and emphasized that the personnel in an Israeli government are an internal affair.

82.   In the last Chechen war, the rest of the world stood aside, vaguely muttering that it was an internal Russian affair.

83.   Internal affair?

84.   It also set a high legal threshold for defense lawyers if they want broader disclosure by police internal affairs departments.

85.   Investigations by the homicide squad and the internal affairs bureau will continue, but Compston said witnesses support accounts by Koogler and the man Craver was shooting at.

86.   Iranian officials have gone to unusual lengths to defend their handling of the case, denouncing the international attention as interference in internal affairs.

87.   Internal affairs reports to the prison board and investigates escapes as well as possible crimes by prison employees, inmate-on-inmate crimes and parolees who disappear.

88.   Israeli officials have balked at such a guarantee, saying that no nation has the right to interfere in its internal affairs.

89.   It should have told the Russians that while Chechnya was indeed an internal affair, there are political realities in the West as well, Simes argued.

90.   It was only the second time NATO authorized the use of force and the first involving the internal affairs of a nation.