Washington has known for decades that its diplomatic outposts might be bombing targets.

Various surly young men attached to this diplomatic outpost spent their afternoons working on old Buicks in front of the building.

Moscow's diplomatic outpost here, just a few blocks from the White House, has been known for its fractiousness since before the fall of Communism.

In the late 1970's, he served briefly Singapore, then as a roving official in the inspection corps, which audited diplomatic outposts.

This country's diplomatic outposts abroad play a crucial role in tracking down international terrorists and drug traffickers and negotiating for their extradition.

All foreign diplomatic outposts have been forced to close except those of the United States and Britain, but food supplies at those posts are reported low.

The State Department said today that American diplomatic outposts worldwide were given advance notice of the Pan Am indictments.

The Consulate General of France in Miami is the French diplomatic outpost in Florida.

Senior Indian officials suggested today that a Pakistan-based Islamic group was behind what they called a terrorist attack early this morning on an American diplomatic outpost here.

When European diplomatic outposts in the Middle East came under a hail of rocks, Mr. Köhler realized he could not stay above the fray.

In a poem called "Ex-Embassy," she contemplates a former diplomatic outpost of the imperium: No peacock opening a bit of its promiscuous fan.

Likewise, the French Institute in Taipei has an administrative consular section that delivers visas and fulfills other missions normally dealt with by diplomatic outposts.

Starbase 37 was established as a diplomatic outpost, and to administer the Federation colony on Artemis VI, in addition to all Federation shipping in the sector.

After two Polish diplomats were shot in Beirut, Lt. Col. Sławomir Petelicki was sent to Lebanon to secure the transfer of civilians and the Polish diplomatic outposts.

The documents - some 250,000 individual cables, the daily traffic between the State Department and more than 270 American diplomatic outposts around the world - were made available to The Times by a source who insisted on anonymity.

The Palestine Liberation Organization's observer mission here is one of the group's most vital diplomatic outposts, a place from which the P.L.O. influences the United Nations agenda and maintains ties with dozens of nations.

A16 WASHINGTON TALK B6 A new style at the Soviet Embassy in Washington has changed it from an old fortress-like operation to an open, even flamboyant, diplomatic outpost.

It recommended a package of security measures designed to reduce the vulnerability of diplomatic outposts to car or truck bombings of the kind that convulsed the embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam on Friday.

The cables reveal the daily traffic between the State Department and more than 270 diplomatic outposts around the world and offer a secret chronicle of the United States' relations with other nations in an age of war and terrorism.

Tass said tonight that Majid Gahremani, the Iranian charge d'affaires in Moscow, was summoned to the Foreign Ministry today and warned that "the Soviet leadership was seriously concerned" about the attacks on its diplomatic outposts.

Congress, distressed by charges that the new American Embassy in Moscow is vulnerable to Soviet surveillance, has passed legislation barring major new diplomatic outposts in the Soviet Union unless they are secure against Soviet spying.

A1 Aftermath of Attack in India Senior Indian officials suggested that a Pakistan-based Islamic group was behind the attack on an American diplomatic outpost in Calcutta that left four Indian police officers dead.

It is the epitome of the British diplomatic outpost in the tropics, from the Union Flag fluttering alongside a grove of palm trees to the immaculate white residency overlooking the deep blue waters of the South Pacific.

The Consulate General of France in Atlanta is the French diplomatic outpost to the South-eastern US states, serving the six states of Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee.

"They were the kind of unpretentious but remarkable people who represent America in diplomatic outposts around the world - people doing their jobs day in and day out, working for peace, strengthening democracy, healing the ill, helping those in need, winning friends for America."