1.   American delegates argued that a year would allow more creative thinking about enforcement procedures.

2.   An American delegate, Rep. Tom Lantos, D-Calif., said the United States was also considering abandoning the conference.

3.   But the chief American delegate, Robert L. Gallucci, refused to describe the negotiations as deadlocked.

4.   Diplomats said Madeleine Albright, the American delegate to the United Nations, raised the issue on a recent trip to Eastern Europe.

5.   Dutka served as an American statistical associate delegate to the United Nations subcommittee on statistical sampling and was a member of the United States Census Advisory Committee.

6.   Earlier this month, American delegates insisted on diluting a U.N. agreement to reduce illegal trafficking in small arms.

7.   Madeleine K. Albright, the chief American delegate to the United Nations, mobilized a campaign to reverse the ban.

8.   On Thursday, Stephen J. Ledogar, the American delegate to the talks, welcomed both sets of suggestions and said the conference now had the ideas it needed.

9.   She expressed it when she was the chief American delegate to the United Nations.

10.   She is the first American delegate to the United Nations who is both a member of the Cabinet and a full-fledged participant in the National Security Council.