1.   Security men seized him, disregarding western observers.

2.   The problem lies in how to account for this, to the Western observer, astonishing phenomenon.

3.   There were various features of the role of the military in Soviet politics that are striking to the Western observer.

4.   Western observers commented that Gorbachev was apparently looking to religion to help provide the spiritual renewal which he saw as an essential part of perestroika.

5.   Galazov claimed that the programme had been pro-Ingush, although Russian liberal opinion and Western observers noted a pro-Ossetian bias in the Russian leadership.

6.   Western observers in Baku say this is because the Armenians are better organised, rather than that Azerbaijan lacks arms and equipment.

7.   Although the law is exhaustive, it is far from perfect, in the view of Western observers.

8.   A recent statement by President Vladimir Putin of Russia has puzzled Western observers.

9.   A wholescale exodus of ethnic Chinese would have a devastating effect on the already troubled Indonesian economy, according to western observers, diplomats and economists.

10.   A wide-ranging history of pop-eyed Western observers and their reactions to a country so radically different from their own as to give rise to reinterpretation of the homelands.