1.   NATO leaders are preparing for a summit conference to Decide the future of the alliance.

2.   NORTH-EAST Greens staged a mock earth summit at the weekend, as world leaders prepared to descend on Rio for the real thing.

3.   As a result, the state university leaders are preparing to fight.

4.   Congressional leaders are even preparing a vote next week on a resolution intended to show bipartisan support for the president in his confrontation with Iraq.

5.   Down in Washington, the division leaders prepare for a Thanksgiving Day showdown in Dallas.

6.   House leaders prepared for their new roles with a dress rehearsal in the closed chamber late Tuesday.

7.   House leaders are preparing to hold a series of meetings on Wednesday on how to grapple with the inquiry, including one between Democrats and the president.

8.   House Republican leaders have prepared an alternate measure that would withhold the money for sampling until the constitutionality of the method is decided by the U.S. Supreme Court.

9.   In Beirut, the other Arab leaders are preparing a draft resolution for Middle East peace based on the proposal put forward by Crown Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia.

10.   It has stepped away from provocative suggestions that its leaders were preparing for independence.