1.   Tension was reported also in the medical and telecommunications sectors, where strike action was being threatened to back demands for better conditions.

2.   Also on Sunday, Jewish settlers removed mobile homes from a hilltop in the West Bank, peacefully concluding a demonstration to back their demands for new settlement construction.

3.   Although doubling the limit on hard money, the compromise was considered a success by Senate Democrats, who fought back GOP demands for much larger increases.

4.   But the council stopped short of authorizing or even mentioning the use of force to back its demand.

5.   Most of the beef is from Scotland and Northern Ireland, and the demand has been backed by the separatist Scottish National Party and the Ulster Unionist Party.

6.   Powell initially backed that demand but now views it as unrealistic, diplomats have said.

7.   Palestinian officials have endorsed the Mitchell Report despite their disappointment at its failure to back their demand for an international observer force in Gaza and the West Bank.

8.   President Emil Constantinescu has promised to back the demands of ethnic Hungarians for separate education in their language, ethnic Hungarian leaders said Wednesday.

9.   At a meeting with Weizman, Albright backed Israeli demands that Arafat take tougher action against militants.

10.   But Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic negotiated the peace plan and is unlikely to back their demands.