1.   President Clinton did not have the will to lead the alliance to a genuine resistance against the Serbian aggression.

2.   A senior NATO official said the Americans felt Lubbers lacked the decisiveness to lead the alliance on those issues.

3.   A senior NATO official said Americans felt Lubbers lacked the decisiveness to lead the alliance on those issues.

4.   Iran has maintained the United Nations should lead any alliance against terrorism.

5.   Iran has supported the need for international action against terrorism, but says it wants the United Nations, not Washington, to lead any alliance.

6.   Massood and Rashid Dostum, a powerful northern warlord, lead an alliance that controls the northern third of the country.

7.   NATO allies on Friday picked Spanish Foreign Minister Javier Solana as secretary-general, ending weeks of deadlock over who should lead the alliance.

8.   --Retired Gen. Wesley Clark, who as supreme allied commander of NATO led the alliance to victory in Kosovo.

9.   The alliance is led by state chief ministers and local leaders.

10.   The anti-Taliban alliance is being led by northern warlord Rashid Dostum, an ethnic Uzbek, and ousted military chief Ahmed Shah Massood, an ethnic Tajik.