1.   Argentina and Chile have hammered out the final details of a mining accord and should sign the agreement soon, an Argentine official said.

2.   Argentine officials say the crisis is now regional, which increases their leverage in negotiations by putting pressure on lenders and foreign governments to prevent the situation from worsening.

3.   Argentine officials say that Tsufaili masterminded the deadly attack here.

4.   Argentine officials argue, on the other hand, that they have done many of the things the fund has demanded, often over strong internal opposition.

5.   Argentine officials hope the deal they are trying to work out with local banks and pension funds could serve as a model for future swaps.

6.   At the height of the Mexican crisis, Argentine officials pledged to buy back every single peso if they had to.

7.   Bostonian Don Lessem, author of two dozen dinosaur books, heard of the discovery and contacted Coria and Argentine officials about making skeletal casts.

8.   Brazil has exempted fellow members of the Mercosur regional common market from new restrictions on imports, an Argentine official said.

9.   But as you read this, Argentine officials are crucifying their long-suffering nation on a cross of dollars.

10.   But several senior Argentine officials pledged that they would not budge the peso from its one-to-one linkage to the dollar or veer from other free-market policies.