1.   But visiting American officials encouraged Australia, which has similar concerns, to take the lead in upgrading contacts.

2.   During his first month in office, Karzai has told a parade of visiting U.S. officials and lawmakers that his goals concur with theirs.

3.   During the Soviet empire, U.S. ambassadors and visiting officials regularly met in Moscow with dissidents.

4.   He visited Saudi Arabia just two weeks ago, and held a long meeting with King Fahd, who is ill and does not meet regularly with visiting officials.

5.   Mastel said he presented the import targets proposal to visiting Chinese officials several weeks ago and it was received well.

6.   Somehow, the challenges do not curb his enthusiasm, nor that of the elders who gathered to petition a visiting UNICEF official.

7.   Sometimes their self-immolation seemed timed to impress some visiting American official.

8.   The visiting Valley officials want to make it possible in their county, too.

9.   Then a friend of a friend of theirs in Springfield showed a tape of a Quincy performance to Shoichi Fujii, a visiting official from Hiroshima.

10.   President Mohammad Khatami met Sunday with a visiting Syrian official and received an invitation to visit Syria, the Islamic Republic News Agency reported.