1.   He is the first Cabinet level official to come here since Bush took office and indicated that he opposed talks with North Korea any time soon.

2.   If independent counsel law was abandoned, Attorney General Janet Reno would wield greater authority in politically sensitive cases involving high level officials.

3.   Nor was the memo shared with high-level CIA officials, though he left open the possibility that lower level officials there may have been aware of it.

4.   The offers were widely expected to be higher than the level officials have described as acceptable.

5.   Then he named the two Cabinet level officials who gave him orders.

6.   US Naval Reserve Commander Willard H. Miller has long been communicating this same concern to high level federal officials.

7.   Woon said he hoped the administration would begin articulating the overall objectives of its China policy more forcefully with more meetings between high level officials of the two countries.

8.   Peng did not imply that coercive measures would be abandoned, but she is the highest level official to declare a shift in family planning tactics.

9.   After the historic meeting, lower level officials of the two semiofficial bodies from Taipei and Beijing met regularly to resolve disputes.

10.   All will receive an airing when cabinet officers from both countries and lower level officials meet at the State Department on Tuesday.