1.   An assessment in an interview with David Harcharik, deputy director-general of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization, which called the summit.

2.   At a news conference Wednesday with Albright, Barak said that calling a summit was the prerogative of Clinton.

3.   Clinton said he called the summit for next week because he was convinced that no further progress could be made unless Barak and Arafat were personally involved.

4.   Shoemaker said he called the summit to brief union leaders on the strikes.

5.   Still, a global Olympic summit has been called for Switzerland in January to discuss, among other doping issues, what to do about supplements like androstenedione.

6.   The ambassadors have met African leaders in Johannesburg, Luanda and Kinshasa, where an ad-hoc regional summit was called by President Kabila.

7.   This summit was called as a five-year reassessment.

8.   Powell proposed a June date if such a summit is called, said Sharon spokesman Raanan Gissin.

9.   After President Clinton asked, Mubarak called a summit last week bringing together Israeli and Palestinian leaders.

10.   Although the summit was called to allow Prodi to unveil his reform plans, the meeting has been overshadowed by the crisis in Kosovo.