1.   Authorities emphasize that the drug criminals are no more typical of average Mexican immigrants than Al Capone was of Italians.

2.   But the authorities emphasized that they had no proof that either of the men were involved in any crime.

3.   Federal authorities emphasized Thursday that they were still looking for more violations.

4.   Federal authorities emphasized at a news conference on Monday that they did not regard the tongs themselves as criminal organizations.

5.   Health authorities emphasized that the mailroom worker, whom officials did not identify, does not have a full-blown case of anthrax.

6.   Later, public health authorities emphasized that other antibiotics, like doxycyclin, were also effective against anthrax, even against the strains involved in the current outbreaks.

7.   Public health authorities emphasized that not a single confirmed case of mailed anthrax spores has been found yet outside the United States.

8.   The authorities Friday emphasized that much investigative work remained to be done, and that no theory of how Lundgren contracted anthrax could be conclusively ruled out.

9.   Federal authorities emphasized that neither man has been charged.

10.   So far, health authorities have emphasized no cases of these diseases have been reported.