11.   Presidents of the three Baltic states met Thursday in the Estonian capital Tallinn to discuss the increasingly touchy question of whether the former Soviet republics can win NATO membership.

12.   The touchy question this political season is what role, if any, U.S. troops should have.

13.   Unlike his predecessor, Li, who tended to evade or ignore touchy political questions, Zhu declared he would address any and all issues.

14.   Throughout their joint press conference, Netanyahu upstaged the usually mediagenic President Bill Clinton, and even cut his US counterpart off on a touchy political question.