31.  American officials believe that Milosevic has more influence over Mladic.

32.  American officials believed that some sort of NATO military action was needed to respond to Serbian air attacks, three of which have been launched from the Udbina airfield.

33.  American officials calculate that the Tengiz oil will double tanker traffic on the strait in coming years.

34.  American officials came to this meeting unclear about the details of what Primakov was negotiating and concerned that he might be getting ahead of the Security Council.

35.  American officials confirmed that they had met with the former lieutenant general in Turkey but said they had not learned all that much from him.

36.  American officials declined to comment on the speech.

37.  American officials disagree about the significance of the split between the Bosnian Serb leader, Radovan Karadzic, and Milosevic.

38.  American officials do indeed spend much of their time telling the rest of the world what to do.

39.  American officials do not feel the need to offer any evidence of terrorism or provocation to take military action against the axis nations.

40.  American officials emphasized that the processing is not for entry into the United States.