21.  Several other groups have made cease-fire deals with the regime in recent years.

22.  This spring, the National Marine Fisheries Service and several other groups will begin a public education program.

23.  Several such groups have already been organized and will shortly set off to await the arrival of the nuclear-powered carrier, it said.

24.  Several thousand such groups have been set up, with the encouragement of the Algerian authorities, to ward off attacks by extremists.

25.  Several other groups also said the meeting had been cancelled.