11.   Qanooni heads a leadership council overseeing the capital, along with the Foreign Minister Abdullah and General Fahim, the successor to assassinated military leader Ahmad Shah Masood.

12.   She is not a member of the leadership council.

13.   The ALPA leadership council will consider the tentative agreement at a meeting Saturday.

14.   The leadership council favors a moderate message that appeals to suburban middle-class voters, a pivotal swing group.

15.   The leadership council generally backs programs that promote market-driven solutions on economic policies.

16.   A leadership council over which Suharto still wields influence is also expected to be scrapped.

17.   Al Hussein, who sits on the INC leadership council, said he was not at the meeting and did not know what had been discussed.

18.   Nafea is not a member of the leadership council.

19.   The head of the settler leadership council, Benny Kashriel, said it was not certain that the attackers were settlers.

20.   Kremlin spokesman Sergei Medvedev said Shevardnadze asked President Boris Yeltsin, who chairs the CIS leadership council, to convene the summit.