Mickey Duff, the manager of Mugabi, wandered into the room to register a protest with the officials supervising the fight.

Local officials supervise the biggest mines and often hire private businessmen to manage them.

Six officials supervise a match: one referee, two umpires, a scorer and two assistant scorers.

The official, Britta Lindgren, supervised the nine-judge panel during the two portions of the women's competition, which concluded Friday night.

Falluja is now a virtual ghost town, with American troops and Iraqi officials supervising the slow return of 200,000 refugees.

The official, Col. Oleg Alkayev, had run the execution chamber at a Minsk prison since 1996 and supervised 130 executions of criminals.

The former official, she said, had supervised hours of interrogation and torture while she hung upside down from a pole in a prison in Addis Ababa.

Mr. Morales said two new high-level civilian officials would supervise all police operations in Mexico's sensitive border areas.

Magnifying the absence of any conclusion are the daily news briefings held by the officials supervising the investigation.

For the moment, the diplomats say President Plavsic has agreed to their demands that her radio staff members be retrained by foreign professionals and that a foreign official supervise the broadcasts.