Soviet officials organized their wartime deportation policy largely along ethnic lines.

But it's overflowing with people: young comrades supposedly guarding it, officials organizing it, women running it.

Pro-administration officials organized parades and demonstrations in favor of the tax.

Community groups and elected officials have organized frequent demonstrations against the city's plan to close eight firehouses around the city.

Rescuers and equipment were arriving from around the world, and Iranian officials organized their deployment, dividing the city into six broad sections.

To test their belief, two officials organised a fictitious picket, by phone, for the next morning.

Meanwhile, officials are organizing civilian self-defense patrols like those that helped bring Shining Path to heel a decade ago.

Local and county officials had quickly organized to oppose the gathering as news of the concert began to spread last week.

Although it was large and dramatic, there were few immediate threats to life, so officials had a chance to plan strategy and organize their resources.

For officials organizing the visit, it presents a logistical challenge staggering in scale and detail.