1.   A similar, less sweeping measure is being drafted in the Senate by Robert Bennett, R-Utah, and Patrick Leahy, D-Vt.

2.   A second measure has been drafted by Rep. Thomas J. Bliley Jr. of Virginia, the new Republican chairman of the Commerce Committee.

3.   All of them would gain much of the added weapons funds the National Security Committee recommended when it drafted the measure.

4.   But the Council leaders said they did not think a different measure could be drafted without violating the First Amendment rights of the adult businesses.

5.   Conley said he drafted the measure after a recent Bruins game where objects were thrown onto the ice.

6.   Hashimoto also said the banking industry wants the government to draft measures encouraging land transactions so banks can sell property held as collateral for loans.

7.   House and Senate negotiators are to meet to draft the measure into a bill next week, at which time it will be decided when it would take effect.

8.   Mitsuzuka told reporters the Finance Ministry and Bank of Japan will jointly draft measures to help the bank recover from the burden of bad loans.

9.   On the other side of Capitol Hill, a bipartisan measure was drafted to prohibit the use of federal funds for the overseas promotion of U.S. tobacco products.

10.   Senate Finance Committee Chairman William Roth, a Delaware Republican, drafted the measure that the panel approved today.