1.   Bush entered office vowing to speedily scrap the ABM Treaty, regardless of Russian objections.

2.   Clinton, who pulled back from the brink of threatened strikes against Iraq in the face of Russian objections last winter, is once again weighing such attacks.

3.   Christopher also emphasized that the expansion of Nato eastward will go forward despite Russian objections.

4.   NATO accepted Russia into a new joint council but refused to let Russian objections change its plans to expand to the former Soviet Baltic States.

5.   U.N. officials and diplomats said that the Russian objection was more political, and that it raised the larger issue of the future of the claims process.

6.   While Moscow has vocally opposed such a move, U.S. officials have made it clear that the Russian objections would not be heeded.

7.   Outstanding issues between the two churches include Russian objections to efforts by the Roman Catholic Church and others to seek converts in Russia.

8.   Plans for John Paul to meet Patriarch Alexy II before the conference fell through because of Russian objections to missionary work in what it regards as traditionally Orthodox territory.

9.   Addressing Russian objections to NATO expansion, Albright said the alliance must strengthen its ties with Russia and Ukraine.

10.   Albright is trying to overcome Russian objections to NATO expansion.