1.   Federal safety officials blasted Evenflo Thursday for resisting the voluntary recall and blaming the child seat mishaps on their customers.

2.   Industry officials blasted the report.

3.   Russian Foreign Ministry officials blasted the report Thursday and demanded an official explanation from Washington.

4.   Palestinian officials blasted Israel for violating the agreement by not releasing the four.

5.   Palestinian officials blasted Israel for violating the newly signed Israel-PLO agreement by not releasing the four.

6.   A high-level military official blasted outgoing deputy prime minister Tansu Ciller for not doing a proper job as foreign minister, newspapers reported Friday.

7.   A Russian railway official on Friday blasted legislators and environmentalists who oppose the multibillion-dollar project.

8.   A senior Swedish official Wednesday blasted Western nations for being soft on Nigeria and proposed an oil boycott to protest its execution of nine leading dissidents.

9.   Azerbaijani officials blasted recent suggestions by neighboring Armenia that the enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh become an independent country, a news agency said Wednesday.

10.   Bosnian government officials blasted the United Nations and NATO for letting artillery and soldiers in Serb-held Croatia join the fighting in northwest Bosnia.