1.   Holbrooke needs to ensure that an independent and credible chief is chosen for the new arms inspection agency that will be created.

2.   No one has yet been named, though Ocean Spray said a new chief might be chosen by the end of the year.

3.   Commission members choose their chief, and they elected Veshnyakov unanimously.

4.   French Foreign Minister Herve de Charette said he also expected a mission chief to be chosen soon, but would not say whether France would agree to back Frowick.

5.   Moldovans choose chief after inconclusive returns.

6.   Suffrage is an old, medieval concept, from the time when chiefs were chosen on the basis of the decibel level they could elicit from their peers.

7.   He had been openly backed by France, Britain and Germany, but Washington insisted that the new NATO chief must be chosen by consensus.