1.  Moser said the elder Carman was a retired union official.

2.  A retired official told him that a group of cronies ran the place, and that nobody could last long if they opposed the clique.

3.  According to a retired official, he also hopes to identify loyal, promising officials for future leadership positions.

4.  Cardinal Pietro Palazzini, a retired Vatican official who was honored by Israel for rescuing an Italian Jew in the Holocaust, died in Rome last Wednesday.

5.  Demps is a retired state official from Oklahoma.

6.  Garretson, a retired NBA official, recommended that the women be given a chance.

7.  He died of a heart attack while vacationing in Westport, Mass., said his friend Walter Pforzheimer, a retired CIA official who served under Houston.

8.  In a telephone interview, Crittenden, a retired Alabama official, said it was too late for a pardon to do anyone any good.

9.  In interviews, a retired American military official and a gulf war veteran both affirmed that a secret abduction had taken place.

10.  Lao, the retired Chinese official, realizes many Americans may view him as a burden.