Some are " nocs " ( pronounced knocks ) who operate under nonofficial cover, perhaps posing as an oil company executive in the Middle East.
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He said nonofficial clerics, some of them aligned or exploited by militant groups, " preach everywhere, on street corners, school buildings ."
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Pierre Bikai, director of the nonofficial American Center of Oriental Research in Amman, Jordan, said researchers and students planned a garden barbecue with country music.
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China has lodged a complaint with the U . S . government and demands that it have only nonofficial relations with Taiwan, Foreign Ministry spokesman Chen Jian said.
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To compile the lists, U . N . researchers analyzed data compiled from 300 sources, including nonofficial ones such as non-governmental organizations, Kangaspunta said.
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The program, headquartered at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, is one of many nonofficial links developing between Vietnam and its former foe, the United States.
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Castro may have in mind the experience of Poland, where a mushrooming of contacts between nonofficial Poles and Americans is widely believed to have heightened opposition to the regime.
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Last week Faisal Husseini, the top PLO official in the city, conceded that the Jerusalem census might be delayed and would probably be carried out by nonofficial bodies.
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Secretary of State Colin Powell took up with the architects of a nonofficial peace plan their proposed terms for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, despite objections from Israel.
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A federal judge ruled Wednesday that the New York Police Department, at least temporarily, cannot require its officers to get advance approval for public speaking engagements in nonofficial capacities.
