1.   But it is not only such radicals who have problems with amending the charter right now.

2.   If the Palestine National Council refuses to amend the charter, he said, the new council members would have to separate from it.

3.   In January, Arafat restated that the charter was amended in a letter to Clinton.

4.   Salim Zaanoun, the speaker of the National Council, was decidedly vague when asked on Thursday whether there would be a vote to amend the charter on Monday.

5.   The group has voted once to amend its charter generally for Oslo, however, the specific revisions were never made.

6.   The vote was well over the two-thirds of the total council membership required to amend the charter.

7.   Peres has suggested troops could pull out from most of the city once the PLO charter has been amended.

8.   Ali Badwan, a spokesman for the Marxist Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, said his group also opposes amending the charter.

9.   Amending the charter was the main objective of all opposition parties in the campaign leading up to the elections.

10.   Arafat has promised to amend the charter within two months of inaugurating the new council.