21.  International action can lengthen the odds.

22.  It should give its utmost support to join international cooperative action to stamp out terrorism, within the limits of the Constitution.

23.  Japanese officials are not exactly gnashing their teeth, nor do they want to be hailed as visionaries who saw the crisis coming and tried to galvanize international action.

24.  Not only does the group stand by its findings, it is urging international action.

25.  Now the pressure is on to step up the pace of international action and, for the first time, adopt legally binding targets and timetables.

26.  Officials of British Petroleum, Enron Corp. and Royal Dutch Shell have endorsed international action to cut carbon dioxide emissions.

27.  Sadly, after numerous conferences, there is still no international action plan.

28.  That fundamental truth offers some hope for international action to slow global warming.

29.  The agency called for coordinated international action, urging stricter controls on immigrants and tourists.

30.  The call for outside monitors or any further international action in Israel and the occupied territories has been roundly rejected by the government of Prime Minister Ehud Barak.