1.   Before the president went to Africa last spring, aides were dispatched as much as a month ahead of time to haggle over access and camera angles.

2.   A Kremlin aide was dispatched to the city to report on the situation.

3.   Campbell last week dispatched aide Michael Langford to Las Vegas to help return Shamila to Atlanta.

4.   Clinton talked by phone with Senate leaders of both parties during the day and dispatched top aides to participate in discussions.

5.   He did not dispatch aides to lobby individual legislators.

6.   Hillary Clinton, who donned a straw hat for the park stop, dispatched an aide with a bottle of water into the crowd to relieve a stifling spectator.

7.   The mayor dispatched two aides to tell the PLO leader to leave.

8.   Then, rather than dictate remedies, Bush dispatched his aides to come up with suggestions.

9.   To begin adapting to the new fiscal environment, the mayor last summer dispatched two aides to other cities, including Baltimore, to study management practices.

10.   Hastert dispatched top aides to Austin this year to meet with campaign aides.