1.  Asked Monday at a news conference at the Vatican if the letter meant the pope was a feminist, Cardinal Eduardo Francisco Pironio lauged before making a diplomatic response.

2.  Chirac had a diplomatic response to the style offensive.

3.  He should instead emphasize diplomatic responses, including continued discussions with France, despite the rebuff Prime Minister Lionel Jospin gave Washington this week.

4.  Holmgren offered up his usual diplomatic response when asked about the future of the former Joey Stayaway.

5.  That was a wonderfully diplomatic response, but the truth would come out later, when he told French Canadian reporters he was considering retirement.

6.  The submarine affair, however, demands a quick diplomatic response.

7.  Equally perplexing was the apparent lack of Western diplomatic response to the killings, it added.

8.  What is required is a calibrated diplomatic response which clarifies international disquiet over the move and, simultaneously, prevents an escalation of tension.

9.  Swedish ambassador to France, Stig Brattstroem, was quoted by the Swedish TT news agency Sunday saying he had received no instructions about any particular diplomatic response.