1.   The calls came as the British Medical Association in a new report stepped up its demands for a total ban on boxing.

2.   And the bow tie call came just before she left her office in Union Square.

3.   The call came as Stephanopoulos was helping Clinton revise his acceptance speech.

4.   Lepanto officials found out later that the call came from a cellular phone being used by Robertson, said Molintas.

5.   The call came as Powell had a weekly luncheon with Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld.

6.   The strike call came one week before Premier Rosny Smarth is to defend his government in a session before increasingly hostile legislators that could cost him his job.

7.   The spokesman said the White House call came as Major was about to leave on his first visit to the Middle East.

8.   The call came amid reported Beijing plans to escalate its protest against Washington through more retaliatory measures, including downgrading of ties.

9.   The call came as a UN envoy to the region said after a meeting with Mobutu that the president remained essential to a solution in Zaire.

10.   The call came after Ukrainian authorities earlier this month annulled the Crimean constitution and ordered separatist President Yuri Meshkov to stand down.