1.   Several countries embargoed arms shipments to Yugoslavia.

2.   The superpowers pledged to maintain symmetry in their arms shipments.

3.   It had been travelling from Libya with the last of five arms shipments for the IRA.

4.   The UK officials were seeking specific information concerning past Libyan contacts with the Irish Republican Army and arms shipments to the IRA.

5.   An open split was averted when the Bosnian prime minister, Haris Silajdzic, suggested a six-month delay in authorizing arms shipments to Bosnia.

6.   And Russian lawmakers asked the Kremlin to begin arms shipments to Yugoslavia.

7.   And Wednesday the European Union, acting at the behest of the British, moved to remove restrictions on arms shipments to the alliance.

8.   Arms shipments into Zaire have not been stopped despite international protests.

9.   Arafat did not admit a personal role in the arms shipment, Powell said, but accepted responsibility in his capacity as chairman of the Palestinian Authority.

10.   Against that background, the Clinton administration secretly gave a green light to Iranian arms shipments to Bosnia via neighboring Croatia.