21.  A one-day strike last month failed to paralyze public transportation in the French capital.

22.  A fire in an office building Tuesday sent up clouds of thick, dark smoke over the Champs Elysees, the most famous avenue in the French capital.

23.  A one-day strike aimed at disrupting bus and subway service in the French capital itself largely fizzled.

24.  A week after the deadly Paris subway bombing, police in the French capital and its suburbs rounded up and arrested a dozen people in pre-dawn raids Tuesday.

25.  Albright flew to Paris after a brief stay in Bonn and met in the French capital with Foreign Minister Hubert Vedrine.

26.  Albright had been in the French capital Monday for meetings with President Jacques Chirac and other French leaders on ways to stop the violence.

27.  Air France said that seven flights that had already left Paris for major American cities were returning to the French capital.

28.  Albright flew to Paris after a brief stay in Bonn and met in the French capital with French Foreign Minister Hubert Vedrine.

29.  Although games will be played in eight cities besides Paris and nearby Saint-Denis, the French capital is where the World Cup opens and closes.

30.  Also, France briefed its partners here of the special security measures it took around Paris after the recent terrorist bomb in the French capital.