11.   Japan continues to cultivate support for its appeal against U.S. sanctions to the World Trade Organization, a Geneva-based global commerce watchdog body.

12.   On Wednesday, Sharif of Pakistan tied the lifting of sanctions to his promise to sign the test-ban accord.

13.   Or a settlement could confine sanctions only to prohibitions against exclusive dealing by Microsoft.

14.   Some American politicians will seek to tie sanctions to other issues, including the status of Kosovo, whose ethnic Albanians want independence from Serbia.

15.   The act also applies the same sanctions to any company that trades in contravention of the U.N. sanctions against Libya.

16.   The decision whether to apply sanctions to Burma for its human rights abuses now rests with President Clinton.

17.   The French president has been an outspoken opponent of pending legislation that would extend U.S. sanctions to foreign companies doing business with Iran and Libya.

18.   The House and Senate last July overwhelmingly approved extending the sanctions on both Libya and Iran even though President Bush had sought to limit the sanctions to two years.

19.   The State Department has a range of options, from waiving sanctions to halting all assistance.

20.   The Security Council strengthened those sanctions to a total trade embargo in May.